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July 22, 2021

NEWS: ⏩ Blocks & Files: " Graid uses SmartNIC approach to RAID Card for NVMe SSDs"

Graid uses SmartNIC approach to RAID Card for NVMe SSDs
By Chris Mellor -July 22, 2021

Startup  Graid has designed a RAID card using a massively multi-core processor designed for AI, and says it can keep up with NVMe SSDs without sucking up host server CPU cycles. Traditional RAID cards use an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and can handle SAS and SATA disk drives pumping out 200 IOPS and around 150MB/sec of throughput, according to GRAID... [Read the full story here]

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Graid Technology has achieved an industry-first benchmark: 100 million IOPS on a protected RAID 5 volume for GPU-initiated I/O, built from 32 KIOXIA XD8 NVMe SSDs. The result shows that resilient NVMe storage can now operate at the scale that current and future AI deployments require, which is especially significant for environments that require both extreme performance and enterprise-class data protection. In benchmark testing with a WholeGraph training workload, [...]