Security News > 2021 > April > GigaIO releases FabreX 2.2, offering scalability over a PCIe fabric for AI workloads

GigaIO announced FabreX release 2.2, the native PCI Express Gen4 universal dynamic fabric, which supports NVMe-oF, GDR, MPI, and TCP/IP. This new release introduces an industry first in scalability over a PCIe fabric for AI workloads by enabling the creation of composable GigaPods and GigaClusters with cascaded and interlinked switches.

Intel, WWT, and GigaIO will be discussing in an upcoming virtual roundtable on April 27th how the new scalability challenges for AI workloads can be met through next-gen high performance solutions like Optane and FabreX. By breaking the barrier of the server box, GigaIO's technology enables the entire rack to be treated as the compute unit.

"The GigaIO FabreX environment with Intel Optane SSDs is enabling scalable performance with significantly lower latency than other options for NVMe.".

"The combination of the native PCIe fabric with Optane SSDs unleashes the potential of both solutions and IT organizations can realize performance benefits and reduced storage bottlenecks across the network," said Kristie Mann, Senior Director of Product Management for Intel Optane.

Data center managers save the extra cost, complexity of set up, and maintenance burden of having several networks running in a rack with a "Sea of NICs," instead deploying PCIe outside the server using only PCIe switches.

"The implication for HPC and AI workloads, which consume large amounts of accelerators and high-speed storage like Intel Optane SSDs to minimize time to results, is much faster computation, and the ability to run workloads which simply would not have been possible in the past," said Alan Benjamin, CEO of GigaIO. GigaIO further breaks one of the barriers to larger scale adoption of disaggregated infrastructure - vendor lock-in - by demonstrating a commitment to open standards: several off-the-shelf software options are available from a number of vendors to compose resources in FabreX, instead of yet another proprietary pane-of-glass and licensing fees.

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