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Under the Hood: What Makes GigaIO’s Composable Infrastructure So Performant?

GigaIO’s software-first composable platform increases resource utilization and lowers cost of ownership by allowing data center managers to compose all individual resources as needed and on-the-fly to adapt to changing workflows, and to burst to the cloud as needed, as organizations pivot to container-native architectures. 

As shown above, the GigaIO Engineered Solution for HPC in Manufacturing delivers the industry’s lowest latency and the highest effective bandwidth by integrating CAE compute and GPU acceleration I/O into a single-system cluster fabric, using industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) technology. GigaIO enables true server-to-server communication across PCIe and makes cluster-scale computing possible via direct memory access by an individual server to system memories of all other servers in the cluster fabric, for the industry’s first in-memory network. 

Patented GigaIO technology strips away unnecessary conversion, software layers, and overheads that add latency to legacy interconnects. HPC storage is easily integrated via CAE application servers, as it normally would be in conventional infrastructures.

Ultimate Power and Flexibility from Just a Few Composable FabreX Building Blocks

A complete Engineered Solution for HPC in Manufacturing can be built out of a few simple FabreX Building Blocks. Lower CapEx and OpEx through less hardware, higher utilization of resources, quicker adoption of new technology, lower power consumption, and less cooling. Avoid over-provisioning and add just the components you need. Maximize utilization of your data-center footprint and contribute to your bottom line. 

The FabreX Fabric Manager (FM) is the central building block and the software engine that drives the performance and dynamic composability of GigaIO’s software-defined hardware. This Linux-based, resource-efficient software layers onto FabreX hardware for easy-to-use composing of computing clusters on-the-fly. A classic Top-Of-Rack network switch, the FabreX Switch communicates with FabreX server drivers to identify and coordinate resources required by the servers. 

The FabreX Network Adapter card is the high-performance, cabled interface to cluster subsystems across FabreX. The card includes both server and target (for PCIe I/O) modes and is FPGA-powered for configuration flexibility. Applications can access remote PCIe devices as if they were attached to the local system. The GigaIO Accelerator Pooling Appliance is the industry’s highest performing PCIe accelerator appliance, with up to 1Tb/sec bandwidth into and out of the box. It delivers advanced provisioning and monitoring of accelerators, supporting up to 8 double-width PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 accelerator cards and 2 PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 low-profile slots. Industry-standard HPC cluster servers and GPU servers are also integrated as shown.

Outstanding Simplicity and Easy Management

Accessing the total power of GigaIO FabreX is as simple as using the same cluster management and workload scheduling managers as you always have. What’s more, there are no problematic NIC or OFED driver bugs, incompatibilities, etc., and there are no more supply chain delays. And down the road, you can add compute, storage, and application accelerators at the component level that plug-n-play with your environment. Every major subsystem can now operate on its own upgrade cycle. The total cost of the system is optimized over its lifecycle, as FabreX drives much higher utilization of all resources.