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Violin 1010
Memory Appliance |
The Violin 1010 is the industry's first Memory Appliance,
capable of supporting both Scalable Memory (DRAM) or High Performance Storage
(NAND Flash) or a mixture of the two. The first release of the Violin 1010
supports 504GB of DRAM in a 2U chassis.
Designed for HPC and data
center applications, the aggressively priced Violin 1010 connects via PCIe and
supports 504GB of DRAM in a 2U chassis. Capacity can scale to 10 terabytes.
Read write throughput is upto 1,400MB/s and 1,000MB/s respectively with 3
microseconds latency. A single 2U Violin 1010 can deliver over 3 million
random IOPS.
The
Violin 1010
Memory Appliance is based on the patent-pending
Violin Switched Memory
(VXM) technology. VXM packs a 2U high Violin 1010 chassis with up to 84 Violin
Intelligent Memory Modules which accommodate either
DRAM or
Flash memory. Higher
density NAND Flash VIMMs will be released later.
The Violin 1010 provides significant benefits to
applications
with requirements for low latency or small file sizes. Video server applications
benefit from the ability to have the same video simultaneously read by thousands
of clients, without disk thrashing.
The Violin 1010 has been designed
to provide cost-effective memory redundancy and protect against data loss. Its
RAID algorithms store data redundantly across multiple VIMMs. The fully loaded
system contains up to 4 hot spare VIMMs and supports non-disruptive replacement
of VIMMs. Multiple VIMMs in the system can fail without the application losing
any data.
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