14 DAY TRIAL // Texas Memory Systems will demonstrate a huge tower rack at the Siggraph convention in Los Angeles. This rack is able to make every digital animator or movie producer on a few miles radius envy the company, as the machine comes with 64 TB of high-speed flash memory. 800,000 input/output instructions per second can be performed by the rack, which needs an overall power of just 2.5 kilowatts. The beast can reach a 12 GB/s bandwidth.
Texas Memory Systems designed the rack in quite a simple manner. There are eight RamSan-500 units stacked together in the rack, and each of them is capable of going 100,000 IOPS and 1.5 GB/sec. 16 to 64 gigabytes of DDR cache memory are available for each of the eight RamSan boxes in order to buffer the flash RAM. All the flash modules are packed in pop-out "drives" and disposed in a redundant array. The company says that in case any of the drives is pulled out without warning, all the stored data would still be safe, and the array would need about 10 to 15 minutes to be rebuilt.
According to TG Daily, the company representatives at the Siggraph convention said that these rack systems are intended for use in intermediate rendering and movie projects, as well as for mega transactional databases. The price of the boxes is too high to allow for them to be used as permanent memory.
Texas Memory Systems' products are used in hundreds of places around the world for the acceleration of databases, SANs, batch processes, and other intense applications. The RamSan SSDs (Solid State Disks) along with the cache systems are considered to be World's Fastest Storage. The I/Os per second and the massive bandwidth provided by a single RamSan cannot be matched by any other storage unit, the company says.
