PCIe card reduces storage costs by 90%

Reducing I/O bottlenecks and enabling maximum system throughput while optimising storage efficiency, the eight lane card offloads computationally intensive compression and security algorithms from a host CPU. The device utilises Exar's XR9240 compression and security co-processor, which allows it to provide compression ratios comparable to level 9 gzip, while delivering 40gb/s of simultaneous compression, encryption and hashtag. The public key engine delivers 40,000 operations per second of RSA with 2,048 bit keys.

The AltraHD, Exar's hardware accelerated solution for Apache Hadoop, has been updated to support the DX2040 card. Using the Hadoop Distributed File System, the hardware solution integrates into the Apache Hadoop software stack and automatically compresses all files and intermediate data. Compared to native Hadoop, the updated AltraHD provides up to two times the performance and a 90% reduction in storage costs.

"AltraHD running with the DX2040 provides the perfect solution to maximise efficiency for Hadoop clusters," said Robert Reiner, Director of Data Compression and Security, Exar. "In addition to increasing performance up to two times and providing massive savings in storage capacity, Exar's single pass transform architecture enables hardware accelerated encryption for free."

The DX2040 card will be presented by Exar at Hadoop World, which takes place on 16-17th October 2014. The company will be in booth 125.