Overview
Memory: The Data Center Bottleneck
Business critical applications demand high performance from all network resources to derive value out of the ever-increasing volume of data. Application data quickly adds up to terabytes: datasets much too large to fit in even large scale local RAM. Memory is emerging as a critical bottleneck in performance slowdowns for applications where latency and throughput matter most.
Memory Virtualization Breaks The Performance Barrier
For the first time, Memory Virtualization decouples memory from its physical environment, making it a shared resource across the data center or cluster. This is not more addressable memory but virtualized memory shared between multiple machines. Memory Virtualization, as a shared network resource, allows large datasets to be processed much faster, meaning less waiting for queries and faster application runtimes.
With Memory Virtualization, RNA networks has solved the key barrier to increasing the efficiency of existing networking resources in order to improve the performance of business critical applications.
RNA networks’ Memory Virtualization Solution
RNA’s Memory Virtualization Platform™ (MVP) is a large capacity shared pool of virtualized memory that is accessible via the network fabric, enabling virtualization of the core information technology elements of the 21st century data center. The RNA MVP addresses today's IT performance challenges and paves the way for new business computing scenarios by eliminating application bottlenecks associated with memory and data sharing.
Benefits of RNA networks’ Memory Virtualization Solution
- Accelerate data-intensive applications by 10-30X
- Allow multiple servers to operate on a single, large dataset delivering results more rapidly
- Highly scalable parallel architecture easily scales to support hundreds of nodes
- Improve utilization of memory, CPU, and storage resources to reduce cost and footprint
- Commodity-based memory appliances add 32GB of memory with integrated Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor
RNA's Products - RNAcache and RNAmessenger
Currently available RNA products, RNAcache and RNAmessenger, deliver optimized data center utilization, performance, and reliability with minimum risk and immediate business results.
RNAcache virtualizes memory into a Collaborative Cache. RNAcache is designed for applications that are I/O intensive and can take advantage of large scale memory sharing, with RNAcache application data and network bottlenecks are removed.
Specifically designed to deliver messages with ultra-low latency, RNAmessenger virtualizes messaging solutions into a Collaborative Cache. With RNAmessenger, high-volume certified transaction processing is enabled. Small message sizes (i.e. hundreds of bytes) are handled as efficiently as large data sets.
Deployment
RNAcache and RNAmessenger are bundled and delivered with the RNA Appliance to provide simple deployment and operation. RNA products can be implemented on a dedicated high-performance overlay network or as part of the established GbE network fabric. Since memory virtualization is application centric, RNA’s products work with most commonly deployed operating system kernels.
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RNAcache
RNAcache provides large scale, sharable network memory resources to applications that are I/O intensive and can take advantage of memory sharing or greater memory capacity. Through virtualization RNAcache consolidates servers and server memory over the network to unleash your business-critical applications.
When operating on a single node with large working datasets, RNA commonly perform data reads at 1.7 GB/s and writes at 1.1 GB/s, compared to data centers without RNA that typically perform reads at 200 MB/s and writes at 55 MB/s. RNAcache can be implemented parallel to scale its performance and provide tremendous aggregate throughput. RNAcache can easily scale to provide 10s of GB/s to the application end user.
RNAcache is a shared, network attached virtualized memory cache. RNAcache caches both data and metadata across nodes linked by common or high-speed fabric, GbE and 10GbE/InfiniBand. RNAcache infrastructure software manages the Collaborative Cache for optimum resource utilization in the data center delivering measurable application acceleration in both read as well as write modes of operation. RNAcache works with commonly available data center operating systems.
RNAcache is bundled and delivered with the RNA Appliance to provide simple deployment and operation. With RNAcache there are two software components, RNAdriver and RNAserver. Servers use RNAdriver to access the memory pool (read/write). Servers can also contribute memory resources to the cache using RNAserver.
The RNA Appliance provides a web-based console to manage and monitor RNAcache as well as a command-line interface.
Benefits of RNAcache
Performance @ Scale
With the entire workload in cache memory, RNA dramatically reduces application paging while raising aggregate throughput to unmatched levels across a parallel architecture. RNA’s distributed architecture scales capacity to Terabytes across hundreds of nodes.
Efficiency
By taking advantage of virtualization, RNAcache consolidates resources and promotes sustainable enterprise IT. Virtualized Network Memory used by RNAcache raises data center utilization. Based on commodity hardware and established systems that require no tuning, RNAcache is a very low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) solution.
Simplicity
RNAcache utilizes existing, well understood APIs (i.e. file, block and object) to seamlessly fit into a cluster with no changes to the application, operating system or network systems.
Reliability
RNAcache is a high availability solution with built-in data assurance and cache coherency across the network.
Resource Sharing
RNAcache is a network attached pool of resources that virtualizes memory enabling both the sharing of resources and information (i.e. data and metadata).
RNAmessenger
RNAmessenger is a breakthrough approach for trade execution messaging that overcomes the hard limitations of message bus architectures in automated and algorithmic trading environments. RNAmessenger replaces existing messaging solutions with the Memory Virtualization Platform to deliver the absolute lowest latency and highest throughput electronic trading infrastructure at scale.
Specifically designed to transfer messages with ultra low latency, RNAmessenger virtualizes messaging solutions onto a Collaborative Cache. With virtualization RNAmessenger consolidates messaging platforms, server memory and reduces message hops to what you need to run your business-critical trading applications.
In RNAmessenger, high-volume certified transaction processing is built-in. Uniquely, small messages (i.e. hundreds of bytes) are handled as efficiently as large data sets.
RNAmessenger is a shared, network attached DRAM cache with virtualized memory architecture. RNAmessenger caches messages across nodes linked by high-speed fabric, 10GbE or InfiniBand. RNAmessenger infrastructure software manages the Collaborative Cache for optimum resource utilization delivering unmatched transaction rates at ultra low latency. RNAmessenger works with most enterprise data center operating systems.
Benefits of RNAmessenger
Performance @ Scale
Whether implemented as a large application cluster or as multiple ‘pods’, RNAmessenger delivers the lowest latency solution for electronic transactions.
Efficiency
By taking advantage of virtualization, RNAmessenger consolidates resources and promotes sustainable enterprise IT. Based on commodity hardware and established systems that require no tuning, RNAmessenger is a very low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) solution.
Simplicity
RNAmessenger interfaces directly to well understood messaging APIs (i.e. Rendezvous, MAMA,file) with no tuning or custom integration.
Reliability
RNAmessenger is a high availability solution with built-in certified messaging. RNAmessenger implements data assurance via a persistent store (i.e. SSD or spinning disk).
Resource Sharing
RNAmessenger is a network attached pool of resources that virtualizes messaging components enabling both the sharing of resources and information (i.e. data, state, and metadata).
Industry Solutions
Turning Enterprise Data Centers into High Performance Assets
RNA networks’ solutions span industries from Media & Entertainment to Scientific Computing, from Manufacturing to Financial Services and from Aerospace to Energy. RNA networks provides solutions that deliver all the benefits of virtualization, multiplied by huge performance improvements, which together drive greater business success.
RNAmessenger for Financial Services
It’s All About Speed
RNAmessenger virtualizes the messaging architecture of trading systems with RNA’s Memory Virtualization Platform. This approach reduces messaging events and trading hops by consolidating the entire trading infrastructure within a Collaborative Cache. RNAmessenger’s software delivers ultra-low latency messaging with very high transaction throughput. In RNAmessenger, certified messaging is built-in along with High Availability.
In no other industry is the adage “Time is money” more true than in the financial world's algorithmic trading and automated trading environments, where a one millisecond improvement in latency can be worth millions in revenue. This race to complete a deal between buyer and seller at lightning speeds makes IT the critical competitive differentiator for the most successful firms in the world.
Be it hedge funds, electronic exchanges or major brokerage firms, thousands of transactions are being processed and billions of dollars are at stake every second. Market volatility and high volumes demand improved communication, collaboration and immediate access to market information. All of this must be done while managing risk and compliance.
RNAmessenger enables financial institutions to act on market data and complete automated trading at line speed while maintaining control and stability, RNAmessenger puts data closer to the point of use by moving data from the network directly into the Collaborative Cache rather than going through the CPU. The result is:
Speed: Because the data is already in the cache, RNA removes the latency of accessing the data needed for successful algorithmic trading. The results are 30X performance gains, 100X improvement in transaction latency and increased revenue by boosting total trade volume by nearly 500% per trade group.
Fast, Reliable Messaging: Using a file-based messaging system, RNAmessenger’s transaction performance operates at line speed, reduces certified message latency to microseconds, and supports peak loads to accelerate performance – replacing today’s messaging solutions which plague financial institutions with high latency.
Effective Risk Management: Financial firms today must actively manage their business risk exposure by identifying risks and using Monte Carlo simulation to determine how significant those risks are. RNA’s ability to process high volumes of cached data at near-line speed enhances the accuracy and relevance of output from the Monte Carlo simulations. Delivering faster access to information and results, RNA maximizes a firm’s ability to make better decisions – faster and smarter – to significantly reduce their risk exposure.
The most cost effective solution: RNAmessenger significantly reduced the messaging software license fees relative to the previous solution. Especially with today’s market conditions using the most cost effective resources is mandatory. RNAmessenger delivers higher ROI.
Immediate access to information is the competitive advantage for responding to volatile market conditions and minimizing risk. By ensuring lower latency messaging at the desired throughput, RNAmessenger drives unmatched performance for the needs of today’s financial firms.
RNA’s Collaborative Cache for OLTP
Consolidation with Performance
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) includes a business’s core strategic systems – order entry, travel reservations, stock trading, inventory management, banking transactions. Thousands of concurrent users issuing millions of transactions per day require millisecond response times, high reliability and low maintenance. Exploding volumes of data, transaction volumes and rising end user expectations have challenged even today’s most advanced systems.
RNA’s breakthrough Memory Virtualization Platform is the only solution for the data-intensive OLTP industry to consolidate infrastructure, improve performance and increase end-user processing speed, all with the lowest maintenance, guaranteed reliability, security and scalability.
New storage technologies have been the hope of many OLTP systems to solve the management and latency requirements required today. However, storage is slow, expensive, management-intensive, underutilized and difficult to scale, hindering data center utilization and processing speed. Recent studies show 50-60% of a company’s typical data storage capacity is wasted (Gartner).
RNA puts the data sets, queries, and algorithms closer to the point of use and keeps frequently-used data requests in the shared global RNA Collaborative Cache. In an industry where a single pricing calculation could touch 1 million objects such as airline ticket pricing, competitive advantage comes from having data immediately available to all systems at the application layer and by removing the latency of traditional storage and messaging systems.
By making memory a truly shared, network resource through virtualization, RNA delivers optimized performance for OLTP. RNA distributes data to all selected nodes - often in excess of 1000-node clusters in this industry - with no changes to the mission critical applications.
Utilization of existing and new systems is optimized through the sharing of critical resources. Other benefits such as reduced storage needs, reduced network storage traffic, and minimized hardware spend enable customers to provide accountability for IT costs and deliver lower Total Cost of Ownership.