Stargate-S1100 NVMe-oF
SmartNIC

Overview

Resnics Stargate-S1100 is the first cloud-native NVMe-oF storage acceleration card with independent intellectual property rights in China. It includes 2x100G data Ethernet ports, 1x1000BASE-T GE management Ethernet port (Optional), 4xU.2 NVMe SSD (Direct link), and supports to extend more NVMe SSD via JBOF all Flash Storage System.

Target Application

Resnics NVMe-oF engine is based on the full hardware logic implementation, with high-performance, lowlatency, high-flexibility, high-security and other characteristics. It is the best choice for cloud computing, HPC, database and other applications with high requirements for high-speed shared storage.

Hardware Specification

Physical form

Standard half-height, half-length, single-width PCIe card
Standard full-height, half-length, single-width PCIe card, supporting an independent 1000 BASE-T management network port

Host interface

PCIe Gen3 × 16

Network interface

2 x QSFP28 100G Ethernet ports
1000BASE-T management network port (optional)

Computing resources

Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor

Memory

16GB DDR4 SDRAM x 72 bits – FPGA
16GB DDR4 SDRAM x 72 bits – ARM CPU

Storage

2 SlimSAS interfaces, directly connect 4 U.2 NVMe disks
64GB eMMC Flash, 1Gb QSPI Flash

Operating temperature

0-45℃

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PCIe gold finger power supply

Power consumption

35W

Functional Specifications

NVMe-oF Initiator

NVMe Controller: NVMe 1.4
Virtualization: SRIOV
Multiple queues
Namespace Mapping
QoS
Hot plug: support
Security: AES, SM4 encryption and decryption, secure key management

NVMe-oF Target

Maximum number of SSDs supported: Each card can directly connect to 4 drives, and can be expanded to support more drives through PCIe Switch
Maximum number of SSD queues supported: 128
Queue Depth: 128
Management interface: NVMe-MI
NVMe protocol version: NVMe 1.4
Hot plug: support

RoCEv2

Queue Pair: 256
Flow ControlPFC, ECN
Queue Depth: 64, configurable
RDMA service: RC

Performance

4K Block Size, 4 SSD: Read 2.7M IOPS, Write 2M IOPS
Latency(Add On)Read <10us, Write <20us

NVMe Switch

NVMe local storage acceleration: supports virtualization, multiple queues, namespace mapping, QoS, encryption and decryption, and SSD hot-swap