Memory specialist achieves 1billion IOPS

The demo took place at DEMO Enterprise in San Francisco in which eight HP ProLiant DL370 servers were used, each equipped with eight ioDrive2 Duos, pictured, to break the 1billion IOP barrier when transferring 64byte data packets. The preview was of an extension to the ACM ioMemory architecture, which the memory specialist says 'significantly' reduces latency and system overhead in transferring data. According to the memory specialist, data integrity is assured by its ability to flush all in flight data, even if the power is abruptly cut, without the need for super capacitors or batteries. The ACM extension is designed to provide new semantics to directly control the datapath to persistent memory, introducing what the company calls 'a fundamentally new building block for how modern data systems are designed'. "Rethinking how to provide powerful modern cpus with the data they need through sophisticated software architectures has enabled us to deliver the ultra low latency performance needed to achieve 1billion IOPS with existing hardware and Fusion ioMemory solutions," said David Flynn, Fusion-io chairman and ceo. "This breakthrough is not something that could be achieved with hardware alone. Intelligent software that optimises NAND flash as a low latency, high capacity, non volatile memory solution for enterprise servers can transform the way organisations process the immense amounts of data that powers our lives today." Steve Wozniak, Fusion-io chief scientist, added: "Breaking the 1billion IOPS barrier is certainly a powerful way to demonstrate our ioMemory architecture. As an engineer, what really excites me about extensions to our core technology such as ACM are the possibilities introduced when flash is utilised as a new memory tier. Instead of treating flash like storage, where data passes through all of the OS kernel subsystems that were built and optimised for traditional storage, our core ioMemory technology offers a platform with new programming primitives that can provide system and application developers direct access to non volatile memory."