• CPU - Pentium Ridged Profile Processor 1.4GHz 
• Memory - 4GB DDR3
• Performance - Over 112 MB/s and 112 MB/s sequential read and write
• Capacity - Surpass 16TB per single volume

• UASP support
• Solid aluminum housing
• Ventilation holes for heat dissipation
• Backward compatible with USB 3.0, USB 2.0, USB 1.x

• PCIe® Gen3 x4L interface single port support
• NVMe™ Rev. 1.3a compliant
• Capacities from 800GB to 6.4TB
• Up to 770K random read IOPS
• Low power consumption, with 16W maximum
• Add-in card form factor
• 3 DWPD with 100% random write workload
• Power loss protection and end-to-end data protection, including T10 DIF
• Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE) option
• Self-encrypting drive (SED), TCG Opal option
• 5-year limited warranty

• High performance computing (HPC)
• (financial trading, healthcare, and oil/gas exploration)
• Online transaction processing (OLTP)
• (transactional and relational databases)
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• IoT, IIoT and Edge computing
• (automotive, autonomous vehicles, transportation, smart cities and smart factories)
• Media streaming
• (media and entertainment, and video surveillance)

NetStor External ePCIe Expansion NA255A-1500 TurboBox GPU (Desktop, 1500W PSU) - 4x PCI-Express-v3.0 x16 slots - With PCI-Express-x16 Card & 1.5M Cable

Performance Desktop PCIe 3.0 x16 (128Gbps) upstream port PCI-Express expansion enclosure particularly design for GPU cards (Available up to 4* double width PCIe Gen3 slots)

External PCIe Gen3 to GPU Desktop Enclosure
The Netstor PCIe Gen3 GPU enclosure NA255A uses the latest PCIe 3.0 technology with PCIe Gen3 ×16 host interface providing extremely fast data transfer rates up to 128Gbps between host and GPU enclosure. The PCIe Gen3 enclosure supports up to four (4) double-width GPU cards with the supply of the built-in eight 6+2 pin PCIe power connectors from the power source. The enclosure features four PCIe 3.0 ×16 slots and two PCIe 3.0 ×4 slots (available as choice) on backplane, accommodating all combinations of PCIe Gen3 ×1, ×4, ×8 and ×16 GPU or PCIe cards for every application with backward compatibility with Gen2 GPU or PCIe cards.

The External Enclosure Dedicated for GPU Computing
As Netstor external PCIe 3.0 GPU enclosure NA255A is designed to be dedicated for multi-GPU usage and supercomputing applications, much emphasis has been put on the ventilation design of the enclosure by the engineers of Netstor’s mechanical and R&D departments to assure users of highly efficient heat dissipation and low temperature to the high-performance GPU cards running inside. Therefore, constant working and stable operation to the GPU computing with abundant productivity is guaranteed. The Netstor GPU enclosure with multiple GPUs is surely committed to working on any mission critical tasks in high performance computing and so on.

Best Solution for GPU-Accelerated Applications
Ideal for professionals and developers to increase the performance of GPU-intensive applications, the power of multiple GPU cards inside the Netstor PCIe Gen3 GPU enclosure collaborates strongly with the CPUs inside host, server or workstation through the PCIe 3.0 ×16 host interface to accelerate the processing speed of application to up to tens of times compared to working on CPUs alone. The Netstor PCIe Gen3 GPU solution with multiple GPUs for HPC can be fully applied to fields including digital content creation, medical research, motionDSP, financial simulation, 3D seismic interpretation, molecular modeling, 3D Ultrasound TechniScan, gene sequencing, weather modeling, engineering design and astrophysics.

Expansion Backplane


Features
Extremely High-Speed 128Gbps PCIe 3.0 x16 host connectivity
Solid metal structure with stylish aluminum housing
Dedicated single 1000 watts power supply for GPU usage
Two quiet front 120x120x25 mm fan cooling for self-contained ventilation
Capable of up to four dual-slot GPU cards
Environmental Monitoring with Power/FAN/TEMP LEDs and mutable buzzer alarm

Qnap Mustang-F100
Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA

As QNAP NAS evolves to support a wider range of applications (including surveillance, virtualization, and AI) you not only need more storage space on your NAS, but also require the NAS to have greater power to optimize targeted workloads. The Mustang-F100 is a PCIe-based accelerator card using the programmable Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA that provides the performance and versatility of FPGA acceleration. It can be installed in a PC or compatible QNAP NAS to boost performance as a perfect choice for AI deep learning inference workloads. >> Difference between Mustang-F100 and Mustang-V100.

• Half-height, half-length, double-slot.
• Power-efficiency, low-latency.
• Supported OpenVINO™ toolkit, AI edge computing ready device.
• FPGAs can be optimized for different deep learning tasks.
• Intel® FPGAs supports multiple float-points and inference workloads.

Mustang-F100-A10-R10
PCIe FPGA Highest Performance Accelerator Card with Arria 10 1150GX support DDR4 2400Hz 8GB, PCIe Gen3 x8 interface

OpenVINO™ toolkit
OpenVINO™ toolkit is based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), the toolkit extends workloads across Intel® hardware and maximizes performance.

It can optimize pre-trained deep learning model such as Caffe, MXNET, Tensorflow into IR binary file then execute the inference engine across Intel®-hardware heterogeneously such as CPU, GPU, Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, and FPGA.

Get deep learning acceleration on Intel-based Server/PC
You can insert the Mustang-F100 into a PC/workstation running Linux® (Ubuntu®) to acquire computational acceleration for optimal application performance such as deep learning inference, video streaming, and data center. As an ideal acceleration solution for real-time AI inference, the Mustang-F100 can also work with Intel® OpenVINO™ toolkit to optimize inference workloads for image classification and computer vision.

Operating Systems
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 64bit, CentOS 7.4 64bit (Support Windows 10 in Mar. 2019 & more OS are coming soon)
OpenVINO™ toolkitIntel® Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit- Model Optimizer
- Inference Engine
Optimized computer vision libraries
Intel® Media SDK
*OpenCL™ graphics drivers and runtimes.

With CES2019 Starting in Las Vega, we are already seeing another of the biggest NAS brands sharing information on their latest releases for 2019. On brand I always keen a keep eye on during this period is QNAP NAS. Over the years we have seen some great hardware announced at this trade show, almost always released later that same year (exceptions such as the TGX-150, of course, will persist). CES 2019 is proving to continue this trend, as QNAP have announced some new hardware AND software featuring on their NAS drive range. In this post, I want to talk about the odd/amazon sounding new QGD-1600P NAS+POE Switch Guardian hybrid device they have announced – it sounds amazon/weird! Take a look.

What makes the QNAP Guardian QGD-1600P so unique?

Although at this time we do not have an image (I will update as and when I do) this new QNAP Guardian QGD-1600P NAS switch-based hardware is designed to combine the features and functionality of a managed PoE switch for optimizing your network, as well as the storage, media, RAID and application support of a mid-range NAS (Plex, containers, Surveillance, Backups, DLNA, etc). QNAP is revealing this device to promote their QVR Pro surveillance platform alongside HDMI out to push its use as a standalone KVM Surveillance station. Below is everything we know so far:

• Intel J3455 Quad Core 1.5Ghz – 2.5Ghz CPU
• 4/8GB Memory
• 2 SSD Bays (SATA 6Gbs 2.5”)
• 1x HDMI Port for HD Station (Plex, Kodi Unofficially, Surveillance and more)
• 1x USB 3.0 A
• 2x USB 3.2 A
• 2x PCIe Slots for 10Gbe, Cache Upgrades and more
• Internally managed 16 LAN ports for switch use
• 12x 10Gbe Ports
• 4x 1Gbe Ports
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) upto 90W
• Microchip® VSC7425 Network controller supporting IEEE 802.3bt
• VLAN, QoS, and port-based PoE Control

• Drop-resistant up to 2 meters
• Built-in cable, pocket-sized portable drive
• 2.5x faster than most portable hard drives
• Durable SSD inside with no moving parts
• Auto backup software built-in

Expand your QNAP NAS without the Performance dip, with the TR-002

• The first NAS purchase was on a tighter budget and therefore they needed to spend less money, so now and are locked into a modest 2 or 4 Bay NAS.
• A NAS business user has hundreds or thousands of different users linked to files and folders over the internet and cannot afford to change NAS Hardware and jeopardize breaking all of those links that they are sharing
• Some NAS users need to create a synchronised backup of their NAS without relying on the network or internet bandwidth, will see huge advantages in using a directly attached NAS expansion chassis to store backups of the NAS

Improving productivity with a QNAP NAS featuring 10GbE Connectivity

A 10GbE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) network is essential for businesses that demand high bandwidth for virtualization and fast backup and restore for an ever-growing amount of data. QNAP provides a range of 10GbE-ready NAS as an affordable and reliable storage solution for 10GbE environments.

Traditional networks have utilized evolving standards of Ethernet (including 100Mb to 1Gb), and until quite recently 1GbE has been considered sufficient enough to manage most day-to-day tasks in conventional IT infrastructures. With the rise of virtualization and the cloud however, 1GbE can potentially be a huge bottleneck that can stifle innovation and prevent organizations from improving and developing necessary virtualized environments to take their business further.