RAID solution with GPU acceleration - GRAID SupremeRAID™ (RAID 0/1/10/5/6 on NVMe drives)

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RAID solution with GPU acceleration - GRAID SupremeRAID™ (RAID on NVMe drives)

Supermicro NVMe RAID & Gigabyte NVMe RAID

The GRAID SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 and GRAID SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 solution is an NVMe data protection solution that offers GPU acceleration for ultra-high performance NVMe drives using a common data protection method in a RAID scheme.

NVMe-RAID

The extreme performance of NVMe flash devices has contributed to major advances in modern computing, enabling the adoption of all-flash memory in various industries. The wide bandwidth available to any NVMe device has rendered traditional RAID cards insufficient in performance. RAID software can utilize the entire bandwidth of an NVMe device, but simple RAID calculations used for large-scale data protection quickly become too CPU intensive, taking up CPU resources, preventing the server from doing anything other than RAID 5/6 operations. In addition, for a variety of workloads that require NVMe SSD performance, traditional RAID solutions are challenging to achieve the expected performance. Current solutions, whether in the form of software RAID or hardware RAID, are unable to support more than 4 NVMe SSDs.

GRAID SupremeRAID™ performs all RAID functions on a cost-effective GPU card, freeing up the CPU to handle major application workloads. GRAID SupremeRAID™ comes in two models, users' choice is based on the appropriate system/model.

SupremeRAID™ solutions Supermicro are AVAILABLE ONLY for system-level sales, using fully tested and configured systems.

GRAID SupremeRAID™ - types:

    SR-1010
        PCIe Gen4
        Dual GPU width

    SR-1000
        PCIe Gen3
        Single GPU width
SR-1000 & SR-1010 Specification:
Supported RAID levels:
RAID 0/1/5/6/10
Maximum number of physical drives: 32
Maximum number of disk groups: 4
Maximum number of virtual disks per group: 8
Maximum group size (GB) Depends on the physical size of the disk
Supported operating systems:

 

Windows:

  • Windows Server 2019 x86-64
  • Windows Server 2022 x86-64
  • Windows 10 x86-64
  • Windows 11 x86-64
  

 

Linux

  • AlmaLinux 8.5
  • Rocky Linux 8.5
  • CenOS 7.9, 8.4, 8.5
  • openSUSE Leap 15.2, 15.3
  • RHEL 7.9, 8.4, 8.5
  • SLES 15 SP2, SP3
  • Ubuntu 20.04

Supermicro NVMe RAID
Name Part Number
Description Supported RAID  
GRAID SupremeRAID™ SR-1010
PCIe Gen 4
GPU-NVQRTX-A2000 NVIDIA PNY Quadro RTX A2000 6 GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0-ActiveCooling RAID 0/1/10/5/6  AOC-GRAID-1010 
SFT-GRD-SRBUN1010SW SupremeRAID Core modular software license for Nvidia A2000 graphics card, supporting full functionality, enabling 32 native NVMe drives.
GRAID SupremeRAID™ SR-1000
PCIe Gen 3
 
 GPU-NVQT1000  NVIDIA PNY Quadro T1000 4GB GDDR6 PCIe 3.0-ActiveCooling RAID 0/1/10/5/6     AOC-GRAID-1000
SFT-GRD-SRBUN1000SW SupremeRAID Core modular software license for Nvidia T1000 graphics card, supporting full functionality, enabling 32 native NVMe drives.

Safety:

SupremeRAID provides reliable support for restoring RAID configurations from SSD metadata. This allows administrators to quickly and easily recover RAID configurations in case of failures or other problems.

Supermicro's list of validated platforms: