Stefan Mileschin

Powered by NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2018) got a chance to see Boston and Nyriad's “GPU powered SSD storage solution which provides speed and data resilience exceeding traditional RAID-based solutions.

Dubbed the Boston Igloo Nebari, the system is based on a Supermicro server, supports up to 72x Micron 5100 PRO SSDs and Micron NVDIMMs powered by Nvidia Tesla P4 GPUs, and harnesses Nyriad’s NSULATE, a GPU accelerated, software defined alternative to RAID. NSULATE presents groups of physical storage devices as a Linux block device to the system and use the accelerated processing capabilities of Nvidia GPUs to perform real time erasure coding at many times the resilience and speed of CPU erasure coding or RAID based systems.

NSULATE simultaneously performs cryptographic checksums on every block of data to prove that every bit stored is perfectly recovered. The use of an Nvidia GPU as a storage processor enables configuration of reliable arrays with many times greater parallelism and scale than traditional storage arrays.

Matthew Simmons, CEO of Nyriad, said: “Boston is a major distributor of Supermicro hardware and we are not only delighted to be working with them, as our first partnership in Europe, but we are excited to be jointly releasing a next generation storage solution that we know will solve the many problems of data resilience, availability and providence.

Manoj Nayee, Managing Director of Boston, said: “The Nyriad and Boston relationship began at GTC18 when we were impressed with their live demo, which drew impressive crowds. During the show we began early discussions around partnership before taking NSULATE into Boston Labs for testing; in this short amount of time we’re pleased to now announce our end-to-end solution that’s ready for market.”

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