Date: 01/18/2024

Time: 1100 – 1200 Eastern Time

Vendor: Liqid

Technology/Topic: Software-Defined Infrastructure – Crafting Server Resources on Demand for the Unknown Mission Workload        

Vendor URL: https://www.liqid.com

TEM Video (milTube): https://www.milsuite.mil/video/watch/video/67117

Welcome to the Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM)!

Utilizing Liqid Matrix software and hardware, we enable the capability to defined bare metal hardware to to meet your individual application demands at the time its needed, and reconfigure the infrastructure, when it’s not.

By externalizing physically constrained PCIe devices, whether they are very expensive GPUs, FPGAs, NICs, etc; removing them from server chassis and placing them in our external PCIe chassis, we provide unheard of flexibility and agility in the on-premise data center. Extending the servers PCIe bus onto a fabric where we can dynamically configure one device, or multiple devices, to a server; on demand while it is running and with no additional software or drivers. We create the impossible bare metal configuration; fitting the hardware to what is needed by the application to meet the mission objectives, not fitting the application to the hardware that is available in the legacy data center.

The OS and higher hypervisor layers cannot distinguish that the GPUs are not physically inside the server. To their perspective, they are just available on the PCIe bus ready to be used by any application. Cloud like flexibility in the on-premise data center. GPUs installed in our external chassis can utilize the physical NVLINK bridge along with our Peer-2-Peer PCIe DMA capability. This enables the use of GPU driver capabilities like NVIDIAs Magnum I/O or AMDs ROCm to bypass the x86 server and talk storage to GPU or GPU to GPU directly; dramatically increasing application processing throughput and cutting latency to a fraction of what it is when it has to go all the way up to the x86 host.

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