Ideal Use Cases
- Multi-tenant Environments
- HPC and Simulation
- AI and Machine Learning
- Cloud-like Computing
- Engineering and Visualization
- VFX and Digital Production
Relevant Industries
- Financial Services
- Life Sciences
- Government
- Academia
- Media & Entertainment
- Oil & Gas
What Is CDI?
Composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) leverages PCIe-based low latency interconnects to enable dynamically provisioned systems. This lets system administrators pool resources like CPUs, accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs), memory or storage without physical reconfiguration. Similarly, resources can be expanded, reduced, or refreshed on the fly.
Dynamically Provision Systems
By disassociating components from their physical location in a server within a cluster, unique hardware platforms can be spun up through software alone. This means users can optimally leverage available resources instead of relying on whatever node architecture is available.
Scale Resources as Needed
The CDI Cluster lets IT managers and system administrators change the way they think of resource procurement. By disaggregating hardware, CDI clusters can grow in whatever way your team needs, without unnecessary extra costs. For instance, an existing CPU-only CDI Clusters can be augmented to include GPU-acceleration using expansion chassis’ for PCIe-based GPUs. These chassis’, like JBODs, run without additional CPUs or storage devices.
Cloud-like Flexibility with Local Performance
Since CDI technology does not virtualize systems, there is no performance loss on the cluster when compared to a similarly equipped traditional HPC or AI cluster. Meanwhile, the software-managed, dynamically composable nodes maintain the ‘on-demand’ nature of the cloud many users have grown accustomed to.
Liqid CDI
Liqid Composable Infrastructure enables users to build a living data center architecture that adapts to meet their business needs and scales as required. Leveraging cutting-edge NVMe-over-flash networking technology, along with Liqid Command Center resource orchestration software, Liqid users can disassociate their resources from their physical server configuration, creating pooled resources that can be composed in new configurations on the fly. This flexibility is paired with powerful improvements in performance, optimization, and efficiency.
GigaIO
GigaIO is an enterprise-class open standard composable infrastructure solution. GigaIO FabreX breaks the constraints of old static architectures, opening new configuration possibilities with composable disaggregated infrastructure, to maximize utilization of all the elements within your racks.