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Chelsio announced
it's new 7th generation DPU product family, Terminator 7 (T7) architected
to support and accelerate a wide range of networking, storage and security
workloads supported by modern enterprise and cloud datacenter applications. With
PCIe 5.0 x16 support, high-speed 400Gbps connectivity, 8 ARM cores (for user),
a 400 Gb DPU core and 8 RISC cores (for network, storage and security offloads),
ability to integrate with external FPGA, the T7 DPU provides tremendous data
compute capability, high-performance, low-latency and low-power generalized solution
addressing the challenges, security requirements of hybrid clouds and modern
applications like artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). It
supports all the host software of its predecessors, T5 & T6, as-is, thus
enabling customers to leverage all prior software investment. The existing T5
& T6 adapters can be replaced with T7 SmartNICs, which provide far more features.
Chelsio T7 Launch at SmartNICs Summit 2022
Chelsio introduced
T7 DPU ASIC at SmartNICs Summit 2022, highlighting the key features and
different variants of T7. The unique ability of T7 to support vast number of
features using a single device, single firmware and seamless
migration to upcoming speeds of Ethernet will provide high-ROI for customers.
The following are the key features of T7 DPU:
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PCI Express v5.0 x16 host interface - End Point and/or Root Complex operation, PCIe Gen 4 Switch. |
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1/2.5/10/25/40/50/100/200/400GbE speeds. |
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400Gb DPU core and 8 RISC cores for offload protocols processing. |
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8 ARM A72 cores for users control path processing of embedded applications. |
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L2 NIC, TCP/IP and UDP Offload. |
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RDMA Offload (iWARP and RoCEv2) - a single chip iWARP/RoCEv2 implementation that can handle high capacity all-to-all traffic for large clusters, T7 is expected to provide a solid fabric replacement for InfiniBand for GPU clusters or HPC installations. |
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Storage offloads [iSCSI, iSER, NVMe/TCP, NVMe-oF (iWARP and RoCEv2), FCoE] with or without encryption. |
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Encrypted communication - Inline and Co-processor modes for IPsec and TLS. |
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Inline IPsec and TLS for all offload traffic. |
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Erasure Code, Dedupe, RAID 5/6, QUIC offload. |
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Hardware Root of Trust support and Secure Firmware Update. |
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Block Compression, Data-at-rest encryption. |
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NVMe Virtualization/Emulation, Virt-IO, OVS Offload. |
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SR-IOV, NVGRE, VXLAN, Geneve Offloads. |
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Integration with external FPGA. |
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Offloading using host memory, removing the need for card memories. |
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Classification/filtering, NAT offload, Ethernet Switch. |
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Traffic shaping/pacing offload. |
T7 DPU family comprises of the below variants:
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T7ASIC - 31mm package, full suite of features, with optional external memories for SmartNICs. |
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D7ASIC - 21mm package, full suite of features, without requiring external memories for Computational Storage. |
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S7ASIC - 21mm package, server offload features, without requiring external memories for generic servers. |
Product in Spotlight
Chelsio T6 based 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Adapters substantially
raised the bar for datacenter networking by combining low latency, low power,
high performance, and integrated encryption, allowing differentiation for a
secure datacenter. With a proven, robust, and scalable architecture, Chelsio
T6 adapters have been winning new designs and customers. The following new
products were released:
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A complete Unified Wire solution comprising of L2 NIC, SMB Direct, SR-IOV, Guest RDMA, Client RDMA, Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct VMMQ, NetworkDirect, NVGRE, VXLAN, iSCSI, iSER, NVMe, FCoE Offload Initiators was released for Windows Server 2022. |
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A complete Unified Wire solution comprising L2 NIC, TOE, vNIC, iWARP, Storage (iSCSI, iSER, FCoE, NVMe/TCP and NVMe-oF iWARP), Crypto (Inline and Co-processor), Classification, Traffic Management for latest Linux Distributions was released. |
Recent Publications
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Chelsio and StorageIO
presented
a Birds of a Feather (BoF) Session discussing the challenges, issues and key priorities for legacy and software defined datacenter
environments and how NVMe/TCP using Chelsio Offload addresses them. |
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Chelsio published
the performance results of NVMe/TCP using Chelsio Offload solution for
both Kernel and User modes. With more than 2.9 million IOPs at the 4K I/O
size, only an 8.69 μs delta latency between
remote and local storage access, up to 50% CPU savings, exceptional
jitter handling capabilities, the Chelsio solution proves to be the
best-in-class at providing the next generation, scalable storage network
over standard and cost-effective Ethernet infrastructure with an
efficient processing path. |
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Chelsio published
a paper on how the iWARP enabled T6 25G Unified Wire and Converged Network
Adapters (CNAs) enable a low-cost, plug-and-play, high-performance Storage
Spaces Direct (S2D) solution using standard Ethernet infrastructure. |
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Demartek published
a benchmark of iSCSI offload vs. no offload for a class of real world
applications. The results clearly demonstrated the necessity of offload
for 100Gb iSCSI. |
Videos
Webinars
In the Wild
Chelsio T7 DPU Line Launched for 400G Generation
Chelsio Unveils T7 DPU Family to Accelerate Range of Storage, Networking and Security Workloads
ToE NVMeoF TCP Performance Line Boost Performance Reduce Costs
Comparative Evaluation of Ethernet RDMA Fabrics for NVMe-oF
We put the iWARP in NVMe-oF - A Chelsio presentation at NVMe Developer Days Conference 2019.
Netflix Open Connect Appliances - Chelsio Network Controllers shipped with Storage and Flash Appliances.
SMB Direct in Linux - A Microsoft presentation providing an overview and benchmarks for SMB kernel client in Linux.
NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design
- TCP Offload (TOE) devices could reduce NVMe/TCP latency.
NVMe Over TCP Will Take Time to Eclipse RDMA
NetApp All-flash filers deliver record breaking performance - Using AFF A800 arrays and Chelsio 100GbE iWARP RDMA adapters.
400 Gbps Disk-to-Disk WAN file transfer - NASA HECN team demonstrates using NVMe-oF and Chelsio iWARP RDMA.
NFS/RDMA over iWARP - A Chelsio Presentation at SDC.
NetApp A800 benchmark - Benchmark results using NetApp A800 all-flash storage systems having T6 adapters.
NetApp long distance replication using T6 and iWARP RDMA.
Long distance replication using T6 and iWARP RDMA on Windows.
Comparing the RDMA technologies - An SNIA webcast comparing iWARP and RoCE.
Case Studies
Regional Library System Simplifies Their Data Center with a Windows Server 2016 Solution
- S2D deployment using Chelsio iWARP RDMA.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Improves Health IT ROI - Providing full support for
hyper-converged S2D deployments without requiring Top-of-Rack switches to support DCB capabilities.
Chelsio
Storage over IP Enable Data Infrastructures - Addressing the various application and workload demands by enabling more robust, productive, effective and efficient data infrastructures.
Learn More
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See a complete list of recent Chelsio newsletters
here. |
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See a complete list of recent Chelsio white papers
here. |
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See a complete list of Chelsio performance reports
here. |
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See a complete list of Competitive Analysis reports
here. |
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See a complete list of Case Studies here. |
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See a complete list of Videos here. |
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See a complete list of Webinars here. |
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See a complete list of Blogs here. |
Remember to follow us on Twitter @chelsio1
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Upcoming Conferences
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Chelsio will
participate at:
Flash Memory Summit
Santa Clara, CA
Aug. 2 - 4, 2022
Storage
Developer Conference
Fremont, CA
Sep. 12 - 15, 2022
SuperComputing
2022
Dallas, TX
Nov. 14 - 17,
2022
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How to Order?
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Chelsio Adapters and Accessories can now be ordered from the following Webstores:
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Latest Software and Drivers
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Unified Wire v3.16.0.1 for Linux, OpenPOWER and ARM |
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Unified Wire v6.16.1.0_WIN_ 006.0.93 for Windows |
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FCoE Initiator v2.0.9.0_WIN_006.0.94 for Windows |
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Unified Boot Option ROM v2.1.0.0 (PXE, iSCSI, FCoE) |
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PXE Boot Option ROM v2.1.0.0 |
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