Ngd systems announces its new ssd catalina 2 with an integrated fpga

NGD Systems has announced the launch of its new second-generation Catalina 2 SSDs with computing capabilities. These new Catalina 2 arrive with a 2.5-inch M.2 form factor and PCI Express card, and are intended for high-density servers for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and machine vision.

New NGD Systems Catalina 2 SSD with integrated FPGA

The new Catalina 2 SSDs are offered with capacities ranging from 4TB to 32TB, all of them are manufactured with Toshiba NAND 3D TLC BICS3 memory technology, in order to offer a competitive product in the relation between price and performance. All of them have a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface compatible with the NVMe 1.3 protocol to offer high transfer speeds.

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The 2.5-inch U.2 models will be available in 4TB, 8TB, and 16TB configurations, while the PCI Express card versions will support a maximum capacity of 32TB. Its performance in sequential data read and write operations can reach up to 3.9 GB / s, with a power consumption of only 13 W maximum.

The key features of Catalina 2 are its storage processing capabilities , the patented Elastic FTL (Flash Translation Layer) algorithm and a strong LDPC ECC foundation. Processing is done by a Xilinx FPGA, which features multiple general-purpose ARM Cortex-A53 cores along with programmable transistors and flexible I / O capabilities. This FPGA runs a Linux-based operating microsystem to perform storage processing.

Processing data on an SSD allows you to perform relatively simple tasks without moving massive amounts of data to the server CPU or across a network, greatly reducing loads on buses and data networks, speeding up processing while reducing overall power consumption. data center power. They all have a 3 year warranty.

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