Samsung has just revealed its new second-generation SmartSSD powered by an AMD Xilinx Versal FPGA that the company says will promise a 50% reduction in computation times.
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Not only that, but the 2nd generation Samsung SmartSSD will have 70% lower power consumption and a reduction in CPU utilization that could be 97% lower compared to a regular SSD for accessing data frequent The big issue here is the new AMD-Xilinx deal that took place in February 2022, which made a big impact on processing data on the SSD, rather than transferring information between multiple drives.
The new Computational SSD has the bandwidth to make the streams faster, reducing data latency as there are fewer (and unnecessary) packets traveling between the storage drive and the processor. This means that the processor is free for other tasks, which are more important to your computer. The integrated Arm cores use small amounts of power and offer low operating temperatures, which are a great combination for use in a supercomputer or HPC system.
Jin-Hyeok Choi, executive vice president and head of product and development of memory solutions at Samsung Electronics, said in a press release: “The commercialization of the first-generation SmartSSD, in collaboration with AMD, established that the market of computational storage has great potential.”
“With the upgraded processing functionality of the second-generation SmartSSD, Samsung will be able to easily address the growing needs of customers in the database and video transcoding sectors as we push the boundaries of the next-generation storage market “.