[san-tech][02990] Chelsio T4 Unified Wire Adapters発表

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:52:44 +0900
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2011/06/14
[san-tech][02837] "Chelsio Delivers Unified Storage Server 2.0 ", November 15, 2010
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Chelsio から新 ASIC: T4採用の Unified Wire Adaptersが発表されました：

"CHELSIO DELIVERS NEW FAMILY OF 10G ETHERNET UNIFIED WIRE ADAPTERS FOR
 CLOUD, DATA CENTER, STORAGE, HPC"

 Chelsio T4 Is Industry's First Converged Network Adapter -
 Enabling TCP, UDP, iSCSI, iWARP, and FCoE Offload Over Single
 Unified Wire With SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCB
 February 28, 2011
  http://www.chelsio.com/pr_022811.html



  "... today announced availability of its fourth generation Terminator
   4 technology in the first release of a new family of 10Gb Ethernet
   adapter cards.  The T4 cards are the industry's first Ethernet
   converged network adapters capable of simultaneously offloading all
   the major networking and storage protocols (TCP, UDP, iWARP, iSCSI,
   and FCoE) with Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV)."

Targeted at Virtualized Clouds, Data Centers, Storage and HPC
Applications
  "...  Along with the extensive offload capabilities of the T4, the
   embedded switch enables further performance advantages for
   virtualized environments, switching traffic from up to 140 virtual
   and physical ports within the T4 adapter.  The T4 supports PCIe
   SR-IOV (8 Physical Functions, 128 Virtual Functions) with advanced
   QoS and traffic management functionality, enabling state-of-the-art
   virtualization design."

Chelsio's T4 Unified Wire Adapters
  http://www.chelsio.com/products_t4_adapters.html
※7製品発表です (各々 Product Briefが用意されています)。

T4 ASIC white paper
  http://www.chelsio.com/assetlibrary/whitepapers/Chelsio%20T4%20Architecture%20White%20Paper.pdf
T4 Adapter Product Selection Guide
  http://www.chelsio.com/assetlibrary/pdf/T4-PSQ111-022511-V2.pdf

The Terminator 4 ASIC
  http://www.chelsio.com/t4_asic.html
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[san-tech][02501] Chelsio Communications：チップ関連プレスリリース (2件)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:27:22 +0900

ちょっとマニアックかもしれませんが、Chelsio Communications関連プレス
リリース 2件です (どちらも Chelsioのプレスリリースには見あたりません)。
※Power.org加盟の件は Chelsio In The Newsにリンクがります。

"Chelsio Communications Licences Tensilica's Xtensa LX Customizable
 Dataplane Processor Core For 10 Gigabit Ethernet", July 20, 2010
  http://www.tensilica.com/news/331/330/Chelsio-Communications-Licences-Tensilica-s-Xtensa-LX-Customizable-Dataplane-Processor-Core-For-10-Gigabit-Ethernet.htm

  "today announced that Chelsio Communications, Inc., of Sunnyvale,
   Calif., has licensed the Xtensa LX customizable DPU (dataplane
   processor)  for its next-generation 10Gb Ethernet Terminator ASIC
   (application specific integrated circuit). Chelsio has used
   Tensilica's Xtensa DPUs in two previous generations of Terminator
   ASICs."

Tensilica's Product Overview
  http://www.tensilica.com/products/productoverview.htm


で、突然 (？)

"Chelsio Communications, Inc. Joins Power.org -- Brings Expertise in
 Network Convergence Over 10Gb Ethernet to the Power Architecture
 Eco-System", July 26, 201
  http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Chelsio-Communications-Inc-Joins-Powerorg-Brings-Expertise-Network-Convergence-Over-1295225.htm

  "Chelsio Communications, Inc., a market and technology leader
   enabling the convergence of networking, storage and clustering
   traffic over 10Gb Ethernet, has joined Power.org, the open
   collaborative organization that enables, develops and promotes
   standards for Power ArchitectureR technology. Chelsio is a leading
   supplier of unified wire to the Power Architecture based solutions."

Power.org
  http://www.power.org/home
※こちらのプレスリリース一覧には未だ掲載されていませんね。

詳細は調べてませんが、Tensilica Xtensaシリーズは Powerシリーズと異なる
独自のアーキテクチャのようですが・・・

Chelsio Communications
  http://www.chelsio.com/
Chelsio's Adapters and Solutions
  http://www.chelsio.com/products.html
Chelsio Japan (いつのまにか)
  http://www.chelsio.com/japan.html
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:25:17 +0900
[san-tech][02161] Chelsio 新チップ発表

Chelsioが新しいチップ (Terminator 4 ASIC) を発表しました：

"CHELSIO ANNOUNCES 4TH GENERATION TERMINATOR CHIP
 Feature-Rich T4 ASIC Offloads TOE, FCoE, iSCSI, iWARP To Enable
 Converged Networks Over Single Unified Wire", March 22, 2010
  http://www.chelsio.com/pr_032210.html

  "Targeted at LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) design opportunities, the
   Terminator 4 (T4) is a highly integrated, highly virtualized
   10GbE controller built around a programmable protocol-processing
   engine.  T4 includes Chelsio's fourth-generation TCP offload
   (TOE) design, third generation iSCSI design, and second-generation
   iWARP (RDMA) implementation.  In addition to full TCP and iSCSI
   offload, the T4 also supports full Fibre Channel over Ethernet
   (FCoE) offload."

LOMまで狙っているんですね。

The Terminator 4 ASIC
  http://www.chelsio.com/t4_asic.html

"The Terminator 4 ASIC represents Chelsio's fourth-generation TCP
 offload (TOE) design, third-generation iSCSI design, and
 second-generation iWARP (RDMA) implementation."
"The T4 will begin sampling to key OEM partners in Q2, and broad
 availability is expected in Q3."

Key new features include:
   1. PCI Express Gen2 x8 host bus interface
   2. Four ports of 100M/1G/10G
   3. Integrated KX4, CX4, KX, KR, SGMII
   4. Full TCP and UDP offload
   5. Full iSCSI, FCoE offload
   6. Full iWARP RDMA offload  
   7. SR-IOV
   8. VEB/VEPA
   9. NC-SI
  10. Memory-less operation

White Paper on Chelsio Terminator 4 ASIC
  http://www.chelsio.com/assetlibrary/whitepapers/Chelsio%20T4%20Architecture%20White%20Paper.pdf
T4 ASIC Product Brief
  http://www.chelsio.com/assetlibrary/products/T4PB-031810.pdf

以下の紹介ビデオが：
  Unified Wire Demonstration (Storage Target)
  Unified Wire Demonstration (Storage Server/Client)
  SR-IOV Demonstration
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