Tag: Storage

• Reinventing Storage for Social Networks with Intel® Xeon® Gold CPUs, Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, Intel® SSDs, and the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Social networking is hugely data intensive. Consequently, data storage consumes a significant part of the budget for VK, Russia’s largest social network. In 2019, VK had 97 million monthly active users.1 Every day, users view 9 billion posts and 650 million videos, and they exchange 10 billion messages.2 They tap the “like” button a billion times a day.1 Over the...
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• Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGAs Accelerate Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors in Servers and High-End Embedded Systems Hardware acceleration for servers is becoming increasingly common because these accelerators can perform calculations faster and more efficiently than the same computations running in software. The recently announced, high-performance Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA family has been designed specifically to provide FPGA-based hardware acceleration and memory expansion for next-generation server systems including servers based on selected Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors...
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• Colorado Engineering Inc plans lower-cost PCIe development platform based on Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs Platinum Intel Design Solutions Network member Colorado Engineering Inc (CEI) is one of the companies that’s receiving early samples of the new Intel® Agilex™ FPGA, per last week’s announcement. CEI’s headquarters overlooks Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. The company has created more than fifty FPGA-based designs for a variety of clients and has been working with Intel...
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• SoftIron accelerates Ceph open-source, software-defined storage performance with FPGA-based storage appliances   Software-defined storage (SDS) solutions “can reduce TCO by 50% or more without sacrificing performance, data services software robustness, or availability service-level objectives,” says SoftIron CTO Phil Straw, quoting Gartner in his article titled “Storage Wars: SDS and the inevitability of Ceph.” Ceph is an open-software storage platform that treats data like stored objects because big data is just easier...
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