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Samsung Electronics Announces Xilinx FPGA-Based Smart SSD

Google 우선 소스Published2018.10.29 10:10
Xilinx and Samsung Electronics, Close Collaboration
Smart SSD, making the storage itself intelligent

Samsung Electronics Smart SSD using Xilinx FPGA

Xilinx announced Versal and Alveo, next-generation adaptive computing acceleration platforms, at the Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) held in Silicon Valley, USA (October 1–2) and Beijing (October 16). In addition, Samsung Electronics unveiled SmartSSD, a Xilinx FPGA-based SSD solution capable of performing high-performance accelerated computing on data without CPU intervention, at 'Samsung Tech Day 2018' held on October 17.

Samsung Electronics’ Smart SSD, based on Xilinx FPGAs to realize innovation in emerging applications in next-generation data centers, including high-performance computing and AI, increases speed and efficiency and reduces operating costs by making data storage itself intelligent.

Let's assume we are searching for an image of a cat. A typical system transmits the data to a storage device via the server's CPU, passes it back to the CPU, and finally sends it to the user. If it were possible to search for cats directly from the storage device, performance and power efficiency would be significantly improved. This is precisely the advantage of Smart SSD.

Currently, Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration solutions target computing applications such as speech recognition, video transcoding, and genetics, and are deployed close to the server CPU. On the other hand, SmartSSDs focus on computing functions such as machine learning inference and big data analytics, which can gain significant benefits by accelerating storage services such as compression, data deduplication, and encryption, as well as accelerating more closely with the actual storage components.

Furthermore, similar to Xilinx accelerators placed near server CPUs, SmartSSD provides a platform approach for the application developer ecosystem to develop and deploy acceleration solutions in a convenient SDAccel environment.

This technology demonstrates the close technical collaboration between Xilinx and Samsung and serves as an example confirming the adaptability and flexibility of Xilinx solutions for data centers.
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