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Micron has announced the availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD.
The Micron 9550 SSD is a showcase of Micron expertise and innovation as it integrates its own controller, NAND, DRAM and firmware into one product, enabling what the technology company calls the “world’s fastest data center SSD and industry leader in AI workload performance and power efficiency”.
In the press release, Micron says the SSD delivers performance of 14GB/s sequential reads and 10GB/s sequential writes to provide up to 67 percent better performance over similar competitive SSDs and enables performance for demanding workloads such as AI. In addition, its random reads of 3,300 KIOPS are up to 35 percent better and random writes of 400 KIOPS are up to 33 percent better than competitive offerings.
The high sequential and random read and write speeds of the 9550 SSD certainly makes it suitable for AI workloads. For example, large language models (LLMs) require high sequential reads, while graph neural networks (GNNs) need high random read performance.
Power efficiency is crucial in data centres too, as the cost of electricity and other utilities goes northward. According to Micron, the 9550 SSD excels in delivering power efficiency to support a variety of AI workloads, including:
- GNN training with BaM: Up to 43 percent lower SSD average power and up to 29 percent reduction in overall system energy usage
NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage: Up to 81 percent less SSD energy per 1TB transferred
MLPerf: Up to 35 percent less SSD energy and up to 13 percent less system energy used
Llama LLM training fine tuning with Microsoft DeepSpeed: Up to 21 percent less SSD energy used
The Micron 9550 SSD will be available in capacities ranging from 3.2TB to 30.72TB and in U.2, E1.S and E3.S form factors.
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