Fungible Inc.
officially launched
a storage cluster solution based on DPU chips last week
Forget ARM! SoftBank bets on DPU chips
Fungible FSC
First, the performance advantages are emphasized
compared to existing SDS solutions including Ceph
which can provide higher IOPS and lower latency
In addition to solid performance
other advantages are universally applicable
The launch event presented three scenarios for FSC
First is the industry benchmark – distributed cloud storage
which can improve performance by 3-4 times compared to AWS official data
Secondly, the partnership channel with IBM
Pensando has partnered with HPE‘s big name
Fungible has brought IBM to the stage amidst the storm
Databases are also a battleground
The performance of FSC inCassandra databasesis naturally crushing compared to standard DAS
Everything is ready
just waiting for good news from customers
However, with a shout from Huang,
all SmartNICs have started to be called DPU
This has indeed made the founder Pradeep feel unhappy
The leather jacket master, you thick-browed guy, also learned from Lei Jun
However,
the term DPU
originated earlier from a star AI company
Wave Computing‘s core product DPU
is based on softwareand features a dynamically reconfigurable processor CGRA architecture
mainly used for AI and deep learning computational acceleration
In 2018,
Wave Computing
acquired the famous MIPS company
and then in April 2020, Wave entered bankruptcy protection and has not been heard from since
The previous successor of MIPS, the British company Imagination,
was also acquired by the Chinese private equity firm Kaiqiao Capital and ended up in a mess
Fungible’s founder Pradeep
began to support MIPS after its return to the US Wave
and chose the MIPS core
Can the new generation DPU chip escape the curse of MIPS?
This is not only about whether the MIPS CPU architecture can fight again
but also about the duel between the former CEOs of Cisco and Juniper in the smart NIC arena
The former CEOs of Cisco and Juniper take turns challenging AWS,
only to realize that the network thrives in the cloud
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