LeWiz Releases Hardware TOE Application with Zero Software Processing Assist Required for Financial Trading
6/12/2013
LeWiz Communications(tm) - a pioneer of hardware-based stateful TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) technology -- today makes available total hardware-based user application for its 5(th) generation, multi-session, ultra-low latency TOE core.
Zero software processing assist is achieved using LeWiz's user application and TOE core -- a unique capability that cannot be done with other TOEs for multi-session, ultra-low latency applications. LeWiz's TOE is the ultimate of the ultra-low latency architecture where all processing is done on-chip by hardware functions for nano-second latency eliminating the need for going off-chip or software processing assist which is very slow and long latency.
LeWiz user application supports LAN/WAN environment network configurations in the same way as traditional software based TCP/IP stack -- making it easy to deploy. The user application performs client-mode, server-mode TCP connections, or proxy-mode TCP sessions making it suitable for different applications including financial gateways for risk compliance, trading applications. User sessions and memory buffers are manages dynamically allowing them to be reused for achieving high efficiency of on-chip resources.
LeWiz user application uses the high performance, non-blocking architecture consistent with the highly parallel processing inside the TOE. It also uses the socket level application interface providing a good design reference for LeWiz customers.
With the feature rich user application design, LeWiz still targets to keep 80% of the FPGA's size available for the customers to use.
Coupling a hardware user application with LeWiz ultra-low latency TOE, LeWiz provides customers a total hardware based solution. LeWiz ported this solution to the latest, large FPGA devices and boards from its partners. Evaluations are available. LeWiz and its partners will demonstrate this complete solution at booth #1115 at SIFMA New York, June 18-19, 2013.
10/9/2012
LeWiz releases its 5th generation TOE Core for ultra low latency application to customers. LeWiz's Gen5 TOE core features 100% hardware offload for stateful, multi-session, multi-processing with flexible filters and advanced functions for high availability, high reliability or mobile markets.
San Jose, CA (October 9, 2012) -- LeWiz Communications(tm) pioneered the hardware-based stateful TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) technology. Today, LeWiz releases its 5th generation, ultra low latency TOE Core suitable for implementing the entire user application on a single chip - the ultimate dream of low latency.
Latency is a critical parameter for customers in the financial sector. By processing the entire TCP/IP protocol in hardware and tightly integrated with user application processing unit(s) with stream interfaces, LeWiz reduces the latency of the entire application (including the TOE functions) down to the nano-second level - several orders of magnitude than what can be done previously. LeWiz further fine tuned the paths of the design allowing high clock speed processing over the entire chip for 10Gbps or Gbps rate. The higher clock speed yields lower latency and faster throughput.
Working with customers in the financial sector, LeWiz enhances its advanced TOE for high message rate and small payload size usage. Difficult functions such as retransmission, multi-session management and data ordering are offered as standard parts of LeWiz TOE Core. Also available is hardware-based, flexible, dynamic filters using the 5-tuples with wild card support. Such mechanism allows applications in servers to open general session for server supported services while allowing data transactions only on specific, user-application accepted sessions. This avoids attacks, filters out unwanted traffic (eliminate unnecessary processing overhead). It also makes the hardware-based servers look like software-based systems to the user - just a whole lot faster.
LeWiz's Gen5 TOE Core offers additional advanced functions (not available in others) such as dynamic health check of remote system or network, and dynamic adaptive calibration according to network conditions, varying or long distances. These are important in high reliability, high availability, or mobile applications. LeWiz TOE is a non-blocking design. It supports multi-processing, direct placement for multi-CPU or multi-thread applications.
With today's programmable chips achieving much larger in logic density and integrated low latency serdes, LeWiz Gen5 TOE Core is ideal for implementing a complete user application in such devices. LeWiz implementation solves difficult on-chip routing and timing problems associated with larger chip sizes. LeWiz TOE Core is self contained and flexible for use with either on-chip stream interface or off-chip standard bus (such as PCI-express bus) making the core adaptable for different user applications. Of course, LeWiz TOE Core can also be used for ASICs. The core is coded using standard RTL language and uses industry standard tools. Its architecture is modular and scalable from low to high number of sessions suitable for small embedded applications to large server system applications.
LeWiz offers customization and flexible licensing alternatives to suit customer's specific requirements.
9/26/2012
LeWiz customers in North America and Europe validated LeWiz's iDefend(tm) products for 10Gig full rate, deep packet pattern search using multiple simultaneous patterns, deep rule table and varying packet depths at different packet sizes including the most difficult - 64-byte Ethernet frame
San Jose, CA (Sept 26, 2012) -- "I've been running various tests (various packet sizes and rates, up to 128 [pattern search] filters) and it [LeWiz 10G card] hasn't lost a single packet!", said a major North American security customer. It's very exciting to hear such customer feedback.
LeWiz Communications(tm) advanced the deep packet inspection science beyond its limitation. Networks are moving rapidly to 10G speed. Network content intelligence is required for applications such as network forensic, network policy/security enforcement, application quality of service, traffic shaping and others. Security conscious organizations must be able to capture, analyze (from layer 2 to the highest layer 7), search for pattern or content information, then allow actions to be taken based on the result(s) of the inspection. But doing so at full 10G rate, at small packet size has been impossible. LeWiz reinvented its content processing technology and achieved 12nS processing speed for pattern search of small packets. That's 83.3 million packets searched per second (or 40Gbps equivalent). LeWiz attributed its superior performance to its highly parallel, pipelined architecture - a concept which was used in super computers but being applied by LeWiz to the chip level.
64-byte packet only takes 51nS to travel at 10Gbps. The pattern inspector must be done with the search well before the 51nS time limit to allow time for application-oriented decision making. By doing the search within 12nS, LeWiz engine has extra time for application redirect, drop or other actions to be taken even at small packet size. Achieving this speed over multiple patterns and deep rule table is difficult as these add complexity and overhead. LeWiz has overcome this!
LeWiz's spectacular performance was achieved using lower cost technology. At 12nS per packet performance, LeWiz architecture is well positioned for 40G and 100G speed.
Many different protocols are contained within a 10G network pipe which is typically shared by smart phone, video, financial, and other traffics. LeWiz's iDefend(tm) pattern search products support a wide range of protocols (including tunneled protocols) suitable for such shared network pipe.
LeWiz also made its network security products easy to use and deploy. LeWiz's iDefendxxxx(tm) PCI-express cards come with complete software application example source code, driver and utilities for configuring and debugging support - enabling customers to easily adapting them for specific applications. LeWiz's card can also be remotely upgraded making the products easy to service and support in field deployment.
LeWiz further provides customization services for customers with specialized requests. If you have a particular problem needing customization, we're ready for your challenge.
9/2/2008
San Jose, CA (Sept 2, 2008)-- LeWiz Communications, Inc., a pioneer in video streaming accelerated technology, now provides its new iStream5206(tm) 6-port video streaming cards (with only five percent CPU utilization) for servers manufactured by SeaChange International, Inc., a leading provider of video-on-demand systems for cable television operators and telcos globally.
LeWiz's iStream52xx cards stream video from video server to clients, for applications such as video-on-demand (VOD) or IPTV. They track thousands of clients simultaneously and deliver high capacity, accurate video.
"Benchmarked against its competitors, LeWiz's 1G and 10G iStream cards outperformed and were proven better in power consumption, cost and flexibility," said Sherry Zhu, director of storage product marketing, SeaChange. "At 24 Mbps per stream with all Ethernet ports maxing out at full speed, the video stream's media delivery index has proven precise. Further, the cards are programmable, which gives us flexibility to add features and allows us to upgrade our products remotely."
"Selection by SeaChange, the leader in video-on-demand, is a huge validation of our video streaming products and acceleration technology. The market for video-on-demand and video-over-Internet is growing rapidly. We are committed to providing a full family of video streaming products from Gigabit to 10Gigabit and beyond. We will continue to add more advanced functions and enhance the speed giving our customers unique advantages in winning and serving their customers," said Chinh Le, CEO of LeWiz Communications.
LeWiz, located in San Jose, CA is the first company to produce a family of network interface cards designed specifically for video streaming systems. The cards are targeted for a wide range of video applications on the Internet, cable TV networks and high speed embedded video applications
Chinh Le, June 2006
Communications
Designers of enterprise networks and networking equipment face continuing price/performance challenges. Users are constantly requesting more bandwidth for larger and more demanding applications. However, the cost of providing that additional bandwidth is often surprisingly high. For example, Gigabit Ethernet ports and connections have currently reached commodity prices (less than $50), whereas 10-Gigabit devices, although available, cost much more. Multi-port gigabit Ethernet cards, now provided in compact forms, offer an intermediate solution, improving performance significantly while still keeping costs under control.
Obviously, bigger pipes provide more throughput. The new 10-Gigabit devices thus provide the best performance in Ethernet networks. However, they currently cost 100 times what Gigabit devices cost. So, at the moment, their use is generally restricted to special applications, such as aggregators and other combined pipes.
An added complication is that cost is not the only factor. Gigabit technology is mature and reliable. Software such as drivers and iSCSI storage application stacks are readily available for GigE hardware. GigE standards are also well defined, making the devices more interoperable, especially in a heterogeneous network environment. In such situations, servers and clients are typically running a mixture of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, and UNIX. The different platforms typically also utilize different processors such as Xeon, Opteron, or SPARC. Time-proven Gigabit Ethernet devices are much easier to get up and running than the newer and less proven 10-Gigabit devices.
Multiport gigabit NICs can provide an intermediate solution. One can produce a big pipe by bonding several GigE ports together. For example, one can create a 4 Gbps per second port by bonding 4 Gigabit ports together. When used for storage backup, such a configuration provides performance equivalent to that of a typical 10-Gig NIC at a fraction of the cost. And note that the technology is proven and widely supported. One can also easily use multiple ports to provide failover fault-tolerant capability using dual or quad redundancy. The extra ports can be switched over different networks, ensuring systems will be up and running even during an outage of the primary networks.
An example of multi-Gigabit NIC is LeWiz Communications‚ Talon3008 card with four independent Gigabit ports. This low-power PCI Express card even offers TCP/IP assist functions to reduce CPU workload. Built in a PCI-E low-profile form factor, the board is plug-and-play for most systems. It readily supports Windows2000/2003 Server, Solaris10/Express, Linux2.4/2.6, and RedHat or SuSE Enterprise operating systems. The hardware has been tested on both AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon platforms in both 32 and 64 bit configurations.
Current price/performance tradeoffs mean that 10-Gig Ethernet is practical only for a few large pipes in most networks. One way to avoid the high price of 10-Gig ports is to aggregate gigabit ports instead. Multi-port NICs currently provide performance comparable to 10-Gigabit adapters at a small fraction of the price. Such NICs utilize proven technology and are simple to install and operate.
Chinh Le is CEO/CTO of LeWiz Communications.
5/17/2006
LeWiz Communications' Talon3008™ board achieves Solaris Ready Certification for Both SPARC and x64 (x86, 64 bit) Server Platforms
San Jose, CA (May 17, 2006) - LeWiz Communications' unique, patented low-profile PCI-Express 4-port GigE card achieved Solaris Ready certification for multiple Sun platforms through Sun's Solaris Ready Program. The card has been successfully tested for the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) on Sun's T2000 SPARC® machines and x64/Opteron™-based platforms such as X2100 server and Ultra workstations.
For the T2000 SPARC servers, 3 Talon3008 cards can be plugged into the 3 available PCI-E slots adding up to 12 GigE ports to the system for multi-zone networking and more network throughput. The card's low-profile form factor fits neatly into this server's small 2U platform with the card plug in straight up.
LeWiz's Talon3008 card is designed for customers who are opting for better performance, reliability, and interoperability. The board uses chips that are proven. It has a very wide range of supporting software available. In bit rate performance, it can reach full wire-rate of Gigabit per second on each port while running the 4-ports simultaneously. It has the capability to throttle the network interrupt in the system, thus reducing interrupt overhead to the system CPUs better for application performance.
LeWiz card's wide range of operating system support allows customers to use Sun's x64 platforms with other operating systems in addition to the Solaris 10 OS. In such environments, multiple ports on the card can be teamed or aggregated together achieving even much higher throughput.
"We are pleased to award the Solaris Ready Logo to LeWiz's products," said Dan Powers, director of Market Development Engineering at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "This qualification assures our joint customers that these products can benefit from the Solaris 10 OS' industry leading features."
Achieving Solaris Ready status allows LeWiz's Talon3008 card to display the Solaris Ready logo, enabling customers to readily identify the solution having proven interoperability with the Solaris 10 OS on SPARC and x64 (AMD Opteron processor-based) server platforms. The Solaris Ready logo informs customers that the product has met the rigorous testing requirements of the Solaris Ready Program for system compatibility, interoperability, ease-of-installation, functionality, and network interoperability as defined and controlled by Sun. Participants in the Solaris Ready Program such as LeWiz have also committed to provide long-term support for their Solaris Ready-certified products leading to greater customer confidence.
LeWiz will be showing its PCI-Express Talon and PCI-X Magic family of multi-port GigE and 10GigE NICs and TOE NICs at the Microsoft WinHEC booth #430 in Seattle 5/23-25, 2006; Linux World booth #1828 in San Francisco August 14-17 2006; and Storage Network World in Orlando October 31 - November 3, 2006.
3/15/2006
LeWiz Communications introduces a dual-port 10GigE PCI-Express NIC with optional TCP/IP acceleration, and announces the availability of its low-profile single-port 10GigE NIC with optional full TCP/IP acceleration for both copper and fiber.
San Jose, CA (March 15, 2006) - Raising 10Gbps NIC performance to another notch, LeWiz offers 2-port 10Gbps NIC on the high performance PCI-Express bus. Taking advantage of its advanced TOE architecture, the LeWiz 10Gbps Ethernet NIC cards with optional TCP/IP acceleration are designed specifically for servers, storage, and client systems with PCI-express and PCI-X slots. Available immediately are the Talon3220 board - a 2-port 10GigE NIC with 8-lane PCI-express, and the Magic2028-10G board - a 1-port 10GigE low-profile NIC with 64-bit PCI-X. Both cards can operate in the familiar NIC mode or TOE mode with full TCP/IP acceleration (see Figure 1).
In the NIC mode, LeWiz's 10GigE NICs can operate in a wide range of operating system environments from Windows to Linux, making these NICs simply work everywhere from desktop clients to data-center servers and storage systems. In the full TOE off-load mode, these NICs can operate in the Linux environment with low CPU utilization and higher speed capability.
The dual port 10GigE PCI-Express is ideal for storage systems that require mirroring or backup function. One port can be connected to the storage-server connection and the other can be connected to the mirror or the backup system. Using only one card and 1 PCI-Express slot saves system cost, reduces heat and at the same time makes use of the high performance PCI-Express bus. The dual port can also be bonded to form a 20Gbps pipe offering a network throughput that would satisfy the bandwidth appetite of any system in the market.
LeWiz has also shipped the low-profile single-port 10GigE PCI-X NIC with optional TOE. The low profile feature enables LeWiz's card to operate in small form factor equipment such as 1U and 2U systems. It also enables LeWiz to offer 10GigE NIC in the "hundreds dollar" range making this card one of the lowest cost in the industry. Contact LeWiz for its low cost volume pricing structure.
Both cards utilized chips that are in full production since late 2005, making the products highly reliable, readily available and low risk for users. Low-cost CX4 copper, short-range and long-range fiber optic are available for both cards.
A wide range of device drivers are available for operating systems: WindowsXP, WindowsServer 2003, Redhat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Core Linux with 32-bit or 64-bit option. Other device driver options are available to customers upon request. All device drivers are loadable - a unique feature of LeWiz's TOE architecture. No need for users to recompile the system OS - easier to use.
Now, LeWiz is putting more magic in the pockets of the IT Wizards in the industry enabling them to make their network blazing fast, reliable, easy to use and low cost.
Figure 1: LeWiz's Dual 10GigE PCI-Express (left and right) and single-port low-profile 10GigE NICs (center)
LeWiz will be showing its PCI-Express Talon and PCI-X Magic family of multi-port GigE and 10GigE NICs and TOE NICs at the Linux World Conference booth #115 in Boston, April 3-6, 2006; INTEROP Exposition booth #1484 in Las Vegas 4/30-5/5, 2006; and Microsoft WinHEC in Seattle 5/23-25, 2006.
About LeWiz Communications
LeWiz is the world's leading supplier of hardware-based, multi-port TCP/IP accelerated chip and NIC solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems. The LeWiz solutions are designed to optimize board space, system efficiency and data performance in servers, blade servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and security systems. LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.lewiz.com.
# # #
LeWiz Communications and the LeWiz logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of LeWiz Communications, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners.
Press Contacts:
Mary Le, VP of Operations
LeWiz Communications
408-452-9800 x109
info@LeWiz.com
8/4/2005
San Jose, CA (August 4, 2005) - Utilizing its second generation TOE ASIC, LeWiz Communications releases a family of TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) products scalable from Gigabit to 10 Gigabit performance for server, storage and security systems. This new family comprises of 3 TOE cards - the Magic2028-2p with dual GigE ports in a low profile PCI-X form, the Magic2028-4p with 4 GigE ports in PCI-X short form, and the Magic2028-10G with a 10 Gigabit port supporting either CX-4 copper or SR/LR Fiber. These products covers a spectrum of 4Gbps to 10Gbps speeds with full TCP/IP offload for the system CPUs making them ideal for the Web serving, or iSCSI and NAS storage applications.
Figure 1: LeWiz's family of Magic2028 TOE NICs
This second generation is built on the solid foundation of LeWiz's previous generation of TOE ASIC which had been through certified testings and deployed in the market place. It employs the same low-power, hardware based architecture but offers higher performance, less board space, and more ports. With both the low power and small space features this product line is well suited for heat sensitive environment of 1U or blade servers. Its scalability allows the same software to be used for Gigabit to 10 Gigabit applications --making it easy for deployment and reduces development time and cost. Its loadable software device drivers come with the standard TCP/IP socket layer making the whole family compatible with any existing software applications. The multiple independent ports allow users to implement fail-over fault-tolerant or bonding together to achieve the high transfer rates.
"These 2nd generation products are reliable, high performance, low power, and easy to use across the spectrum of networking speeds. It has an amazing architecture, so compact that you can build a dual Gigabit port implementation in half the size of a credit card with full TCP/IP offload", said with full excitement, Chinh Le CEO of LeWiz Communications.
Various versions of 32-bit Linux drivers (Redhat and SuSE) are available with this product family. 64-bit drivers and Windows support to be followed. Production volume of the Magic2028 TOE NICs will be available in September 2005.
LeWiz will be showing its Magic2028 family, the Talon3008TM 4-port PCI-express board, and Magic2020™ TOE HBA at the Linux World Conference Booth #561 in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2005.
About LeWiz Communications
LeWiz is the world's leading supplier of hardware-based, multi-port TCP/IP accelerated chip and board solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems based on chip performance not on hype. The LeWiz solutions are designed to optimize board space, system efficiency and data performance in servers, blade servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and security systems. LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.lewiz.com.
# # #
LeWiz Communications and the LeWiz logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of LeWiz Communications, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners.
Press Contacts:
Mary Le, VP of Operations
LeWiz Communications
408-452-9800 x109
info@LeWiz.com
7/12/2005
San Jose, CA (July 12, 2005)-- Utilizing its patent pending technology, LeWiz Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, amazingly packed the performance of 4 Giga bit per second Ethernet (GigE) ports on a tiny low-profile, 4-lane, PCI-Express card for server, storage and security systems. With all 4 ports active in bi-directional mode, LeWiz's Talon3008™ PCI-Express board can transmit and receive up to 8Gbps or 4Gbps in each direction. The board has TCP/IP assist functions to reduce the work load for the system CPUs. Both short form and standard height PCI-Express brackets are available.
Figure 1: LeWiz's Talon3008TM, 4-port, low-profile, PCI-Express card
With its small form factor and low power consumption, LeWiz's Talon3008™ 4-port PCI-Express card is well suited even for small space, heat sensitive 1U server, storage and security systems. The Talon3008TM board allows users to take full advantage of the new PCI-Express bus performance which are being shipped by most major server OEMs, and mother board makers.
The 4 independent ports allow users to implement fail-over fault-tolerant capability using quad redundancy or dual redundancy that can be switched over 2 different networks ensuring the system can always be up and running even during an outage of the primary network. For higher performance, the 4 GigE ports can also be bonded together to form a single pipe achieving the performance of most 10Gbps HBA cards in the market but at a fraction of the cost - yet still allowing the users to use the proven, low cost GigE network equipments.
The board is a plug-n-play for many systems. It readily supports Windows2000/2003 Server, Solaris10/Express, Linux2.4/2.6, and Redhat or SuSE Enterprise operating systems. In hardware, it has been tested on both AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon platforms both in 32 and 64 bit configurations.
Storage application such as iSCSI stack, and Web server Apache applications are readily available. Existing applications would run on this board without modification or recompilation.
"A tier-1 server OEM challenged us. Others said it cannot be done. We delivered!", said Chinh Le, CEO of LeWiz Communications, Inc.
The board's ordering part number is Talon3008-4P. Production volume will be available in August 2005 with short form and standard height PCI-Express brackets.
LeWiz will be showing its Talon3008™ PCI-express board, Magic2020™ TOE HBA and other new products at the Linux World Conference Booth #561 in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2005.
6/7/2005
San Jose, CA (June 07, 2005)– LeWiz Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, announces immediate availability of a full range of enterprise class Linux OS and iSCSI storage stack support for its Magic2020™ TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) HBA. A range of 32 and 64 bit Linux OS from Redhat 9 to Redhat Enterprise AS 4.0, to SUSE Linux Enterprise 9.0 is now available for the Magic2020™ HBA. In addition, Linux’s iSCSI Enterprise Target and Initiator software stack have also been tested and available with LeWiz’s Magic2020™ HBA. These software also work with the Magic2020™ HBA on both AMD Opteron and Intel processor based systems.
Table 1: Linux OS and Magic2020™ HBA available across platforms ( ---- = not applicable)
| Linux OS | AMD Operon (32 bit) | AMD Opteron (64 bit) | Intel Xeon (32bit) | Intel EM64T Architecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redhat AS 4.0 -- 32 bit | Now | ---- | Now | ---- |
| Redhat AS 4.0 -- 64 bit | ---- | Now | ---- | 7/05 |
| Novell SUSE LES 9.0 -- 32 bit | Now | ---- | Now | ---- |
| Novell SUSE LES 9.0 -- 64 bit | ---- | Now | ---- | 7/05 |
| Redhat 9.0 -- 32 bit (and other Linux 2.4 Kernels) | Now | ---- | Now | ---- |
"Previously, LeWiz proved its TOE performance is the best in the industry. Today, it's making such performance available across multiple platforms with a full range of Linux operating systems and iSCSI application for the server and storage markets. Meeting our customer requests, giving them the best for their applications, and enabling them to move to enterprise class with ease -- we aim to make our customers successful." said Chinh Le, LeWiz's CEO.
LeWiz will be showing its Magic2020™ HBA and other new products at the Linux World Conference Booth #561 in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2005,
About LeWiz Communications
LeWiz is the world's leading supplier of hardware-based, multi-port TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) chip and board solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems based on chip performance not on hype. The LeWiz chips are designed to optimize board space, system efficiency and data delivery in servers, blade servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and security systems. LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company's Web site at http:// www.lewiz.com.
# # #
LeWiz Communications and the LeWiz logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of LeWiz Communications, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners
Press Contacts:
Mary Le VP of Operations LeWiz Communications 408-452-9800 x109 info@LeWiz.com
5/9/2005
Certified benchmark scores prove best in breed bi-directional Performance Efficiency Index.
San Jose, CA and Austin, TX (May 9, 2005)- LeWiz Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, and Synchromesh Computing, a leading benchmark and certification company, announced that the LeWiz TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) HBA received the highest Performance Efficiency Index (P.E.I.) measured using standard benchmarks under high TCP/IP load or varying data sizes.
Compared against existing product offerings from Intel, Alacritech, Adaptec, and Broadcom, the LeWiz MAGIC2020™ multi-port HBA consistently offloaded more of the host CPU and outperformed all other TCP/IP offload NICs or standard NICs studied across a wide range of tests.
When data sizes were varied from small (4KByte) to large (512KByte) sizes, the LeWiz’s solution offers 2 to 3 times better in overall system performance efficiency. When TCP/IP loads were varied from low (1) to higher normal (512 bi-directional) loads, the LeWiz solution offers about 3 times better in system performance efficiency than any other solution. Some competing products on the market cannot function reliably at the higher TCP/IP load. The LeWiz’s Magic2020™ HBA consistently performs reliably even under the most stressful conditions.
“Over 5 years of development and tuning really pay off for LeWiz. Today, LeWiz’s hardware-based architecture proves that it is the best solution on the market from performance to reliability. Yet, we can do it at a fraction of the power consumption of any other solution. Simply amazing!” said Chinh Le, LeWiz’s CEO.
“At first, Synchromesh Computing was a bit skeptical about the very concept of using a separate processor to reduce the workload of the main CPU or CPU’s in a PC or server machine”, said Synchromesh Computing CEO Alan R. Weiss. “We found that indeed this works as designed. First, we proved the very value proposition of TCP/IP Offload Engines in general, and then we found that the LeWiz solution (LeWiz MAGIC 2020 TCP/IP Offload Engine) is superior to the Alacritech and Adaptec offload engines, and also superior to the Intel Gigabit Network Interface Card (NIC) and the Broadcom 10Base1000 NIC for the tests we performed. We have the certified data to back up these statements”, he explained. “This young company really has the goods.”
Figure 1: TTCP Benchmark Certified Results
(not showing competing product that failed the test. LeWizTT = LeWiz TOE to TOE)
LeWiz will be showing its Magic2020™ HBA and other new products at the Linux World Conference Booth #561 in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2005.
About LeWiz Communications
LeWiz is the world’s leading supplier of hardware-based TCP Offload Engine (TOE) solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems based on chip performance not on hype. The LeWiz chips are designed to optimize efficiency and data delivery in servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and RDMA devices. LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company’s Web site at www.lewiz.com.
About Synchromesh Computing
Synchromesh Computing is the leading benchmarking, certification, analysis, software testing, software development, integration, and consulting company in the embedded computing world. Founded in December of 2003, the fast-growing company includes such clients as Freescale Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), AMCC, Sigma Tel and many others. Its focus is on embedded, PC, Server, thin client, internet appliance, and storage products. The company is located in Austin, Texas and serves clients worldwide. Synchromesh Computing have the full faith and confidence of the microprocessor and computer industry, and are known for fairness in benchmarking and performance analysis. Its Synchromesh Computing Certified Seal indicates to customers that the results are repeatable and fairly obtained.
http://www.synchromeshcomputing.com
# # #
LeWiz Communications and the LeWiz logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of LeWiz Communications, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners.
Mary Le
VP of Operations
LeWiz Communications
408-452-9800 x109
MaryL@LeWiz.com
Alan R. Weiss
CEO and CTO
Synchromeshcomputing
512-219-0302
alan@synchromeshcomputing.com
4/21/2005
San Jose, CA (April 21, 2005) – LeWiz Communications, Inc. today makes available its Magic2020 TM card with TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) on the 64-bit AMD Opteron TM processor-based platform. The TOE card is available for Linux 2.6 kernel in both 32- and 64- bit modes. It has been tested with Novell’s SUSE TM Linux Enterprise Server 9 distribution. Other Linux 2.6 distributions will be qualified in the near future.
“The revolutionary AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture can dramatically reduce memory bottlenecks and improve system efficiency with AMD PowerNow!™ technology,” said Pat Patla, director, server/workstation marketing, Microprocessor Business Unit, Computation Products Group, AMD (NYSE: AMD). “LeWiz - with its unique architecture – can help enable a new level of performance while maintaining the AMD Opteron processor’s low power consumption. This is desirable for high-performance computing systems and other applications where cooling is a concern.”
“Combining a dynamite 64-bit machine like the AMD Opteron processor with the high- performance, low-power TOE card for the I/O subsystem produces an extremely high- efficiency computing platform – irresistible for the true engineers,” said Chinh Le, LeWiz’s CEO/CTO.
LeWiz’s Magic2020 TOE card used LeWiz’s LE2020 TOE chip and has been available with Linux 2.4 kernel for multiple computing platforms. Its performance has been independently certified and been shown to dramatically improve the system efficiency while boosting system throughput to wire rate. The Magic2020 has 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Both ports can work simultaneously and supporting up to 256K TCP/IP sessions.
About LeWiz Communications
LeWiz is the world's leading supplier of hardware-based TCP Offload Engine (TOE) solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems based on chip performance not on hype. The LeWiz chips are designed to optimize efficiency and data delivery in servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and RDMA devices. LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.lewiz.com.
# # #
LeWiz Communications, the LeWiz logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of LeWiz Communications, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof, and AMD PowerNow! are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners.
Press Contacts:
Mary Le
LeWiz Communications
408-452-9800 x109
MaryL@LeWiz.com