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UPDATED: For the configuration, engineers from HP and Fusion-io built a system using five 320MB ioDrive Duos and six 160MB ioDrives in a single HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server, running with four Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. This allowed engineers to reach an unprecedented 8GB-bps sustained throughput, making it possible to achieve 1,009,384 IOPS using 2KB random 70/30 read/write mix, as measured using the fio benchmark, Fusion-io claimed.

Fusion-io, which makes handheld-size solid-state storage arrays for enterprise systems, announced April 6 that it has broken an I/O speed barrier of sorts: 1 million IOPS and 8GB per second of sustained throughput, running on a single Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server.

Fusion-io’s frontline product, the ioDrive, is the first direct-attached, solid-state server storage array that uses PCIe (PCI Express) connectivity. The ioDrive is small—barely larger than a typical handheld device—and uses advanced NAND flash clustering to perform the same functions as a spinning desk storage array, only with faster read/write performance and with much less power draw.

“In the past, when you talked about the [1] million IOPS [I/O operations per second] performance level, you were always talking about mainframe-class systems,” wrote John Fruehe, director of business development for server/workstation products at Advanced Micro Devices, in his blog. AMD’s quad-core chips powered the ProLiant in the test.

Another article talking about Fusion-io’s achievement running on a DL785 G5, it provides some imrpessive results, I’m off to read up more, it could be great for virtualization/hpc solutions.

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