Delivers deployment flexibility, NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect storage and OpenID Connect support
KIOXIA has released version 3.20 of its KumoScale storage software built around the NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) protocol. Designed for cloud-centric deployment at data centre scale, the KumoScale storage platform delivers high performance NVme flash storage as a disaggregated networked service. Major features in KumoScale software version 3.20 include additional bare metal deployment options, seamless support for OpenID Connect 1.0, and support for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (GDS).
In addition to the KumoScale software’s streamlined appliance install, KumoScale software version 3.20 adds an option to deploy on generally available commercial operating systems. Most large data centres deploy architectures that have very specific requirements for security, monitoring, telemetry and networking which requires that storage subsystems support OS customisation to integrate into these environments seamlessly. KumoScale software “managed mode” enables complete flexibility for engineering and security administrators to configure, integrate and control the KumoScale software storage layer OS environment, while KumoScale software “appliance mode” provides simpler installation and automated deployment with reduced deployment complexity for small and medium enterprise customers but with more limited OS configurability.
Version 3.20 adds support for NVIDIA GDS. GDS enables a direct data path for direct memory access (DMA) transfers between GPU memory and storage, which avoids a bounce buffer through the CPU. This direct path increases system bandwidth and decreases the latency and utilisation load on the CPU. KumoScale software behaves as a storage adapter to GDS.
“AI and other breakthrough cloud technologies have the potential to solve some of society’s most difficult challenges - and they’re transforming data centre architectures,” said Rob Davis, vice president of storage technology at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform enables storage innovators such as KIOXIA to equip customer data centres with the extreme performance required to tackle next-generation workloads.”