Miranda CDI Cluster
CDI / Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure
CDI Cluster
with Dynamic Infrastructure
Enterprise-Grade AI and HPC with Bare Metal Efficiency
Are you facing challenges balancing compute resources in a multi-tenant setup? Perhaps some systems sit idle while others struggle to keep up, or cloud costs are spiraling beyond control. The CDI Cluster from Silicon Mechanics offers a compelling alternative.
Built on a Linux-based reference architecture, this solution is designed for disaggregated environments, combining cutting-edge technology with a carefully optimized infrastructure to deliver both performance and adaptability. Using PCIe-based fabrics paired with a smart software layer, the CDI Cluster achieves cloud-like agility without sacrificing bare-metal speed—helping you maximize ROI.
By decoupling compute resources from their physical hardware, the CDI Cluster extends the lifespan of your investments. Software-driven reprovisioning lets you quickly adapt resource configurations to suit diverse workloads, ensuring you get the most out of your infrastructure over time.
Get More InformationIdeal Use Cases
- Multi-tenant Environments
- HPC and Simulation
- AI and Machine Learning
- Cloud-like Computing
- Engineering and Visualization
- VFX and Digital Production
Relevant Industries
What is CDI?
Composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) leverages PCIe-based low latency interconnects to enable dynamically provisioned systems. This lets system administrators pool resources like CPUs, accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs), memory or storage without physical reconfiguration. Similarly, resources can be expanded, reduced, or refreshed on the fly.
Dynamically Provision Systems
By disassociating components from their physical location in a server within a cluster, unique hardware platforms can be spun up through software alone. This means users can optimally leverage available resources instead of relying on whatever node architecture is available.
Scale Resources as Needed
The Miranda CDI Cluster lets IT managers and system administrators change the way they think of resource procurement. By disaggregating hardware, Miranda CDI clusters can grow in whatever way your team needs, without unnecessary extra costs. For instance, an existing CPU-only Miranda CDI Clusters can be augmented to include GPU-acceleration using expansion chassis’ for PCIe-based GPUs. These chassis’, like JBODs, run without additional CPUs or storage devices.
Cloud-like Flexibility with Local Performance
Since CDI technology does not virtualize systems, there is no performance loss on Miranda when compared to a similarly equipped traditional HPC or AI cluster. Meanwhile, the software-managed, dynamically composable nodes maintain the ‘on-demand’ nature of the cloud many users have grown accustomed to.
A Choice of CDI Software
Liqid CDI
Liqid Composable Infrastructure enables users to build a living data center architecture that adapts to meet their business needs and scales as required. Leveraging cutting-edge NVMe-over-flash networking technology, along with Liqid Command Center resource orchestration software, Liqid users can disassociate their resources from their physical server configuration, creating pooled resources that can be composed in new configurations on the fly. This flexibility is paired with powerful improvements in performance, optimization, and efficiency.
GigaIO
GigaIO is an enterprise-class open standard composable infrastructure solution. GigaIO FabreX breaks the constraints of old static architectures, opening new configuration possibilities with composable disaggregated infrastructure, to maximize utilization of all the elements within your racks.
Expert Included
Our engineers are not only experts in traditional HPC and AI technologies, we also routinely build complex rack-scale solutions with today's newest innovations so that we can design and build the best solution for your unique needs.
Talk to an engineer and see how we can help solve your computing challenges today.