2. By introducing real converged computing
By removing layers of inefficiency in the data path
By amplifying the performance of hardware and network resources using a revolutionary
new architecture
By consolidating server nodes and delivering extraordinary performance for a fraction of the
investment in datacenter infrastructure
By delivering 10 to 100x higher performance and at a fraction of the costs
We solve the most challenging computing and analytics problems
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
3. Fortissimo Foundation Solution as “Converged System”
Many layers of inefficiency in the data path
Existing Hyper-Converged Systems
The DFS (Distributed File System) is
managed using a dedicated virtual machine
(VM2)
The resources are organized using an
appliance running in a VM. Applications
and VM are not able to access directly to
the HW resources
Each time you access to the hardware
resources you use a virtual machine
introducing many layers of inefficiency
(VM1 VM2 HDD (File) VM2
VM) troughs the hypervisor every time)
Fortissimo Foundation-Converged Systems
The DFS (Distributed File System) is
managed natively, No Virtualization
Applications and VMs can access the
HW resources directly
Applications access the aggregated
resources directly amplifying their
performance
This leads to be extreme
performance faster than any other
existing solution
Removing layers of inefficiency in the data path and
amplifies the performance of hardware
Data access time > 1000s us Data access time < 15 us
Fortissimo Foundation permits you to run applications directly in the
servers and sharing the resources without using any hypervisor
This leads to being 100x time slower than native access paying a big latency tax
destroying all the performance
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
4. Fortissimo Foundation Solution as “Converged System”
Existing Hyper-Converged Systems Fortissimo Foundation-Converged Systems
Slow virtualized resource access
High latency, low IOPS
Works only with VMs
No support for native converged analytics
No support for Supercomputing performance
No support for VMs and bare metal applications
Ultra fast direct access, local and remote resources, not
virtualized
Extremely low latency, high IOPS
Runs with standard applications, not only VMs
Perfect architecture for modern converged analytics
Designed for Supercomputing performance
Includes support for VMs, bare metal applications, containers …
Inefficiency in the data path becomes worse when you scale No overhead introduced when infrastructure scales
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
5. Why latency is important and why Fortissimo Foundation is the real solution for
“Converged Computing Systems” and the future elastic datacenter
10 50 100 150 200 250 500 550 600 > 10000
Fortissimo Foundation Latency
Existing Hyperconverged Systems
Latency in microseconds
Lowerisbetter
Latency is the most critical performance factor because it directly affects system data exchange time. Latency means lost time; time that could have been
spent more productively producing computational results, but it is instead spent waiting for I/O resources to become available.
Latency is the “application stealth tax”, silently extending the elapsed times of individual computational tasks and processes, which then take longer to
execute. Once all such delays are accounted for, the overall system performance can drop significantly.
This is why when building or buying a new system, latency performance matters – and not just at the storage level, but across the
system, through system inter-nodes and software applications.
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
6. Fortissimo Foundation Converged Computing
Computing and storage merged together
with no Hypervisors involved
Hardware level latency in data access
No applications modifications required
Native use of multi-level tiering (Hot
Data, Warm Data, Cold Data)
No external NAS, SAN required
Elastic growing of data store and
computation
Drive infrastructure costs down more
than 3 times while achieving 10x better
performance
Scale your application performance
using global RamStor™
Run existing Hadoop and analytics at
Spark ™ speed with no application
changes
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
7. Fortissimo Foundation Converged Supercomputing
Computing and storage merged together with
no Hypervisors involved
Hardware level latency in data access
Parallel and concurrent data access from any
nodes and any process to all the storage
Scalable bandwidth proportional to the
number of nodes
Integrated GPU, multi-core and coprocessor
optimization
A single process can store data into terabytes
of aggregated memory (RamStor™)
Ultra low latency in data access and data
exchange
Native shared file system across 1000s and
1000s computing nodes
Eliminate the complexity of data access and
performance tuning in traditional
supercomputers
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
8. Fortissimo Foundation Converged Hyper-Computing
Up to 100x faster than existing Hyper-
converged systems on the market
Deliver extraordinary performance for a
fraction of the investment in datacenter
infrastructure
Native resource aggregation
Introduce the real elastic datanceter
architecture
Ultra low latency
Linear scalability
VMs “in-memory” read and write caching
Run converged application (non virtualized),
Virtual Machines and Containers
VMs direct access to storage
Live migration of VMs across all the nodes
Consolidate server nodes
No virtualization overhead in resource
management
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
9. Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
Fortissimo Foundation
Re-Shape Data center Computing , Supercomputing and Virtual Computing
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