White Papers

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  1.5U - New & Innivative Server Form Factor

  As the leading rack-mount server and storage enclosure designer and manufacturer, AIC continues to provide cutting-edge enclosure solutions by unveiling the World's first 1.5U rack-mountable server enclosure, RMC-15C to the industry.

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  AIC-Mellanox-Seagate_SDS Collaboration

  The datacenter is going through a drastic transition as new technologies, innovators and partnerships emerge. One such emergence is Software Defined Storage (SDS). Per IDC, SDS is “a flexible enterprise storage infrastructure that leverages the agility of virtualized resource allocation, management, and reclamation to meet extremely dynamic business requirements”. At the core, SDS decouples the storage hardware from software and enables the use of various storage deployments such as block, file and object storage. The flexibility of SDS enables administrators to deploy storage simply and dynamically.

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  AIC-Samsung-Mellanox- E8_Mission Peak eShelter PoC

  The rapid acceleration of data creation has put traditional storage architectures under increasing pressure because it lacks the scalability and flexibility required to fulfill future capacity and performance requirements. The data tsunami calls for a new innovative hardware and software ecosystem, which break the barriers of existing designs by offering unforeseen density and performance.

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  How To Cost-Effectively Optimize Your Investment with Serial-Attached SCSI

  Since the emergence of SAS two years ago, many high-end storage solution providers and OEMs have recognized the advantages of SAS over tis parallel predecessor.

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  Maximize SATA Value with SAS Controllers

  Remarkable cost-effectiveness has always been the hallmark of SATA disk drives, and recent improvements in performance (3Gb/s) and available capacity (up to 750GB) have only reinforced SATA's stature as the unrivalled leader in storage efficiency.

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  Mission Peak-E : High-performance shared storage solution with Samsung NF1 SSDs

  The 1U Mission Peak-E server platform was developed with the latest technologies by industry leaders AIC, AMD, Mellanox and Samsung. With up to 576TB of high-speed NF1 form factor NVMe SSDs from Samsung, it offers more than 5X higher capacity than traditional flash storage solutions within the same footprint. NVMe is a new block storage protocol that has been designed for fast SSDs with low latency and is more efficient than traditional SCSI-based protocols.

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  SAS & SATA Total Cost of Ownership

  For SATA or SAS functionality, design Right First Time with scalable LSI HBAs and MegaRAID SAS adapters coupled with turnkey chassis from Advanced Industrial Computer (AIC)

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  SAS White Paper (SAS Market Trend Projection)

  Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the successor technology to the parallel SCSI interface, leverages proven SCSI functionality and features while expanding SCSI's proven performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise storage.

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  SAS-FC-SCSI-iSCSI Comparison Chart

  The chart outlines the difference among SAS, Fibre Channel, SCSI and iSCSI topology in terms of its connections, maximum bandwidth, cable length, configuration diagram, etc.

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  Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS

  Enterprise data access and transfer demands are no longer driven by advances in CPU processing power alone. Beyond the sheer volume of data, information routinely consists of rich content that increases the need for capacity.

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  Using AIC SB122A-PH 1U 10-Bay NVMe Storage Servers as the Building Blocks of High-Performance Scale-out Storage for HPC Applications

  This document overviews a simple and effective approach of using a set of engineering tests to optimize the configuration of AIC Inc’s SB122A-PH server as the building blocks of high-performance scale-out HPC storage solutions.