Fortissimo Foundation introduces a revolutionary converged computing architecture that removes layers of inefficiency in the data path. By consolidating server nodes and allowing direct hardware access, it can deliver 10-100x higher performance than existing solutions at a fraction of the cost. The architecture introduces no virtualization overhead, enabling ultra-low latency access and linear scalability for both virtual and non-virtual workloads. This makes it suitable for converged analytics, supercomputing and hyper-computing applications.

1. FORTISSIMO CONVERGED
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
E.Billi
CTO

2.  By introducing real converged computing
 By removing layers of inefficiency in the data path
 By amplifying the performance of hardware and network resources using a revolutionary
new architecture
 By consolidating server nodes and delivering extraordinary performance for a fraction of the
investment in datacenter infrastructure
 By delivering 10 to 100x higher performance and at a fraction of the costs
We solve the most challenging computing and analytics problems
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

3. Fortissimo Foundation Solution as “Converged System”
Many layers of inefficiency in the data path
Existing Hyper-Converged Systems
 The DFS (Distributed File System) is
managed using a dedicated virtual machine
(VM2)
 The resources are organized using an
appliance running in a VM. Applications
and VM are not able to access directly to
the HW resources
 Each time you access to the hardware
resources you use a virtual machine
introducing many layers of inefficiency
(VM1  VM2  HDD (File)  VM2 
VM) troughs the hypervisor every time)
Fortissimo Foundation-Converged Systems
 The DFS (Distributed File System) is
managed natively, No Virtualization
 Applications and VMs can access the
HW resources directly
 Applications access the aggregated
resources directly amplifying their
performance
 This leads to be extreme
performance faster than any other
existing solution
Removing layers of inefficiency in the data path and
amplifies the performance of hardware
Data access time > 1000s us Data access time < 15 us
Fortissimo Foundation permits you to run applications directly in the
servers and sharing the resources without using any hypervisor
This leads to being 100x time slower than native access paying a big latency tax
destroying all the performance
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

4. Fortissimo Foundation Solution as “Converged System”
Existing Hyper-Converged Systems Fortissimo Foundation-Converged Systems
 Slow virtualized resource access
 High latency, low IOPS
 Works only with VMs
 No support for native converged analytics
 No support for Supercomputing performance
 No support for VMs and bare metal applications
 Ultra fast direct access, local and remote resources, not
virtualized
 Extremely low latency, high IOPS
 Runs with standard applications, not only VMs
 Perfect architecture for modern converged analytics
 Designed for Supercomputing performance
 Includes support for VMs, bare metal applications, containers …
Inefficiency in the data path becomes worse when you scale No overhead introduced when infrastructure scales
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

5. Why latency is important and why Fortissimo Foundation is the real solution for
“Converged Computing Systems” and the future elastic datacenter
10 50 100 150 200 250 500 550 600 > 10000
Fortissimo Foundation Latency
Existing Hyperconverged Systems
Latency in microseconds
Lowerisbetter
Latency is the most critical performance factor because it directly affects system data exchange time. Latency means lost time; time that could have been
spent more productively producing computational results, but it is instead spent waiting for I/O resources to become available.
Latency is the “application stealth tax”, silently extending the elapsed times of individual computational tasks and processes, which then take longer to
execute. Once all such delays are accounted for, the overall system performance can drop significantly.
This is why when building or buying a new system, latency performance matters – and not just at the storage level, but across the
system, through system inter-nodes and software applications.
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

6. Fortissimo Foundation Converged Computing
 Computing and storage merged together
with no Hypervisors involved
 Hardware level latency in data access
 No applications modifications required
 Native use of multi-level tiering (Hot
Data, Warm Data, Cold Data)
 No external NAS, SAN required
 Elastic growing of data store and
computation
 Drive infrastructure costs down more
than 3 times while achieving 10x better
performance
 Scale your application performance
using global RamStor™
 Run existing Hadoop and analytics at
Spark ™ speed with no application
changes
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

7. Fortissimo Foundation Converged Supercomputing
 Computing and storage merged together with
no Hypervisors involved
 Hardware level latency in data access
 Parallel and concurrent data access from any
nodes and any process to all the storage
 Scalable bandwidth proportional to the
number of nodes
 Integrated GPU, multi-core and coprocessor
optimization
 A single process can store data into terabytes
of aggregated memory (RamStor™)
 Ultra low latency in data access and data
exchange
 Native shared file system across 1000s and
1000s computing nodes
 Eliminate the complexity of data access and
performance tuning in traditional
supercomputers
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

8. Fortissimo Foundation Converged Hyper-Computing
 Up to 100x faster than existing Hyper-
converged systems on the market
 Deliver extraordinary performance for a
fraction of the investment in datacenter
infrastructure
 Native resource aggregation
 Introduce the real elastic datanceter
architecture
 Ultra low latency
 Linear scalability
 VMs “in-memory” read and write caching
 Run converged application (non virtualized),
Virtual Machines and Containers
 VMs direct access to storage
 Live migration of VMs across all the nodes
 Consolidate server nodes
 No virtualization overhead in resource
management
Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing

9. Converged Computing, Supercomputing, Hyper-Computing
Fortissimo Foundation
Re-Shape Data center Computing , Supercomputing and Virtual Computing
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