Xinnor, a developer of high-performance storage software, today announced xiNAS, a high-performance NFS storage solution purpose-built for AI, HPC, and other data-intensive workloads. Validated on Supermicro AS-1116CS-TN NVMe servers powered by AMD EPYC™ processors, xiNAS delivers all-flash, scale-out performance using standard NFS semantics, without proprietary clients or specialized hardware.
Modern AI training, simulation, and analytics pipelines demand massive shared throughput with predictable latency and uninterrupted operation during failures. Traditional NAS architectures often become a bottleneck in these environments. xiNAS changes that equation by combining Xinnor’s xiRAID software RAID engine with an optimized XFS filesystem and NFS over RDMA, maximizing the performance of the underlined hardware.
In joint validation testing with Supermicro, xiNAS demonstrated up to 74.5 GB/s read and 39.5 GB/s write throughput from a single server equipped with just 12 NVMe PCIe Gen5 drives, and up to 117 GB/s read and 79.6 GB/s write throughput in a two-node scale-out configuration, demonstrating linear scalability, while maintaining strong performance during drive failures and rebuilds. Backend testing showed 97–100% efficiency of theoretical NVMe performance with minimal CPU overhead, preserving headroom for high-speed networking.
“xiNAS is designed to make NFS a performance enabler rather than a constraint for AI and HPC,” said Dmitry Livshits, CEO at Xinnor. “By tightly integrating xiRAID with an optimized filesystem and RDMA-enabled NFS, we deliver shared storage that keeps GPUs fed, scales linearly, and continues to perform even under real-world fault conditions.”
xiNAS is optimized for multi-client, multi-server deployments and supports linear bandwidth scaling as nodes are added. Key benefits include:
- Extreme throughput using standard NFS, accelerated with RDMA (RoCE or InfiniBand).
- No proprietary client software, enabling simple deployment and integration.
- High efficiency data protection with xiRAID, delivering strong performance in both healthy and degraded modes.
- Operational stability during failures, with minimal performance impact during drive failures and rebuilds.
The validated configuration used Supermicro AS-1116CS-TN servers equipped with AMD EPYC 9004-series processors, NVIDIA? BlueField?-3 DPUs, and PCIe Gen5 NVMe storage, highlighting xiNAS’s ability to fully exploit modern CPU, network, and storage capabilities.
“Supermicro continues to focus on delivering application-optimized building blocks for AI and HPC,” said Lawrence Lam, VP, AI & Storage Solutions at Supermicro. “Our NVMe-optimized AS-1116CS-TN servers, combined with Xinnor’s xiNAS software stack, demonstrate how standard architectures can deliver exceptional shared-storage performance for the most demanding workloads. By combining a high-performance storage engine with an optimally pre-configured NAS server platform, xiNAS significantly simplifies and accelerates deployment for AI initiatives in vertical markets like scientific laboratories, universities, and hospitals.”
“AI and HPC workloads place intense demands on both compute and storage,” said Derek Dicker, CVP Enterprise Business Group at AMD. “AMD EPYC processors provide the core density, memory bandwidth, and I/O capabilities required to support high-performance, RDMA-enabled storage solutions like xiNAS, helping customers build balanced platforms that keep accelerators and CPUs operating at high utilization. xiNAS is engineered to efficiently leverage AMD EPYC CPU capabilities to sustain extraordinary levels of data access performance, even in worst-case conditions such as component failures or sudden peak workload bursts, ensuring consistent service levels when they matter the most.”
xiNAS is available immediately through Supermicro and its partners. The solution is delivered as complete software and hardware combo, enabling customers to easily deploy high-performance and resilient NFS storage.
The details on the validated configuration are available in the solution brief at https://www.supermicro.com/solutions/
For more information about xiNAS, visit https://xinnor.io/what-is-xinas/.
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