Chelsio Newsletter, December 2014

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Chelsio Newsletter 

Happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year from all of us at Chelsio!

The year 2014 closes on a high note with several high profile announcements that underscore the momentum behind Chelsio’s Unified Wire and RDMA over Ethernet solutions.

As Chelsio’s 40Gb iSCSI and FCoE adapters established themselves as the highest performing in the industry, designed-in by nearly all the storage OEMs, the turn was for 40Gb iWARP RDMA over Ethernet to get into the spotlight, with traction in a number of major cloud installations. Notably, Microsoft’s recently announced Cloud Platform System, a scalable turnkey private cloud solution, selected Chelsio iWARP as its RDMA fabric. The selection reflects the technical merits of the iWARP protocol, and validates the robustness and performance of Chelsio’s implementation.

Chelsio’s iWARP solution also made the headlines in showcasing the first NVMe over Fabrics demonstration, providing the same direct attach storage performance across an Ethernet link, with minimal latency impact. Chelsio’s RDMA over Ethernet solution is emerging as the interconnect of choice for this disruptive storage architecture, and an ideal unifying storage fabric as it already powers clustered storage products from tier-1 storage OEMs.

iWARP is built on top of TCP/IP, allowing it to seamlessly scale to large data centers, and operate over long distances, all the while natively providing reliable congestion and flow control. Chelsio’s iWARP implementation is a plug-and-play high performance RDMA over Ethernet solution that leverages standard Ethernet switches, routers, firewalls and other network devices, doing away with the acquisition and operating expenses of complex DCB and specialized gateway equipment.

Chelsio recently announced joining the OpenPOWER Foundation, to participate in the development of POWER Systems solutions.

New Products

Chelsio launched the Terminator Core IP, a configurable design kit for high performance System on Chip Ethernet network controllers, leveraging 5 generations of field proven packet processor designs. Core IP is delivered with a full suite of in-boxed software, suitable for a wide range of SoC network connectivity solutions. The Core IP supports ccNUMA, enabling a whole new level of scalability for SoC applications, integrating the network I/O with the SoC memory subsystem and leveraging memory across a large network.

Chelsio recently released NVGRE Offload support for T5 based adapters on Windows Server 2012R2 to deliver high performance network virtualization, enabling customers to converge on a single vendor for Microsoft CPS applications.

Recent Publications

  • Chelsio added a number of new reports and whitepapers to its technical library this quarter, including:
  • Chelsio also published a number of new reports and whitepapers this quarter, as the converged suite of protocols gets enabled over 40GbE across the major operating systems.
  • Chelsio published a paper comparing iSER performance over 40Gb iWARP RDMA and FDR InfiniBand, showing how Chelsio’s solution provides superior performance without the need for a new fabric that is incompatible with the large Ethernet installed base.
  • Chelsio published a Frequently Asked Questions paper regarding iSER and iSCSI. The paper dispels some of the confusion around this subject and clarifies the relationship between the two protocols.
  • Chelsio published a paper comparing 40Gb NIC performance and latency, iSCSI throughput and IOPS of the T5 versus latest competing server adapters. The benchmarks show superior performance across latency, bandwidth and IOPS, with higher efficiency for the Chelsio solution.
  • Chelsio published a paper comparing 10Gb NIC latency, iSCSI throughput and IOPS of the T5 versus the latest competing server adapter. Chelsio provides specialized fabric performance levels for NIC as well as storage and clustering protocols in one unified adapter.
  • Chelsio published benchmark results comparing 40Gb SMB Performance over RDMA-enabled T580-CR and a standard 40Gb server NIC. The results show significant performance and efficiency benefits when RDMA is used.
  • Chelsio published a paper showcasing the superior performance of its NVGRE Offload capability on Windows Server 2012 R2 compared to the latest competing adapters.

Learn More

  • See a complete list of recent Chelsio whitepapers here.
  • See a complete list of Chelsio performance reports here.

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