Enakta Labs Collaborates with KIOXIA to Advance Storage Solutions

We're thrilled to announce our strategic collaboration with KIOXIA Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions. Together, we've published a Reference Architecture whitepaper combining KIOXIA CD8P-R NVMe drives with the Enakta Storage Platform — delivering record-shattering performance on commodity hardware.

This collaboration brings together Enakta Labs' innovative storage software with KIOXIA's industry-leading NVMe technology. The result is a validated, production-ready architecture that dramatically reduces storage latency and increases throughput for AI, HPC, media, and enterprise workloads.

Key Takeaways

Using DAOS technology and KIOXIA NVMe products, the Enakta Storage Platform delivers one of the highest-performance storage solutions on the market — all built on standard, commodity server hardware.

KIOXIA CD8P-R NVMe — Purpose-Built for Performance

The KIOXIA CD8P-R Series is a read-intensive data centre NVMe SSD built on PCIe 5.0, delivering sequential read speeds up to 12,000 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 5,500 MB/s. The CD8P-R achieves a 60–80% increase in sequential read performance compared to its PCIe 4.0 predecessor, with exceptional quality of service in terms of latencies.

Available in capacities up to 30TB and in both 2.5-inch and E3.S form factors, the CD8P-R provides the flexibility to scale storage capacity while taking full advantage of the PCIe Gen5 bandwidth.

Reference Architecture: The Building Block

The reference architecture is based on the Supermicro SYS-211GT-HNTR — a 2U chassis housing 4 single-socket nodes, providing an ideal balance of density, performance, and cost.

Component	Specification
Chassis	Supermicro SYS-211GT-HNTR (2U, 4 nodes)
CPU	Intel Xeon Gold 6430 (32 cores per node)
Memory	16 × 96GB ECC Registered DDR5 (1.5TB per node)
Storage	6 × KIOXIA CD8P-R NVMe 15TB (90TB raw per node)
Network	NVIDIA ConnectX-6 VPI dual port (2 × 100 Gbps per node)
Boot	2 × M.2 NVMe 480GB (per node)

This means the base 2U building block delivers 300 TiB of raw capacity with up to 3,200 Gbit/s of network bandwidth — and theoretical throughput of 288 GB/s reads and 132 GB/s writes based on the peak performance of KIOXIA CD8P-R devices.

Scale-Out Design

The Enakta Storage Platform supports flexible data protection including N-way replication and erasure coding. For example, with 6+2 erasure coding the usable capacity is 75% of raw — and different datasets on the same platform can use different protection schemes.

Performance scales linearly across servers. The same DAOS engine has been proven at 1,000+ nodes in production at Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer.

AI/ML Storage Challenges

With GPU performance doubling every two years, the bottleneck is shifting from compute to storage I/O. The faster data can reach GPUs, the less time they spend idle. DAOS with KIOXIA CD8P-R NVMe drives enables the throughput required for modern AI checkpointing, training datasets, and model serving — all at speeds that keep GPU clusters fully utilised.

What This Means

This collaboration validates the Enakta Storage Platform on enterprise-grade NVMe hardware from one of the world's leading flash manufacturers. Together, we're working to develop more efficient storage architectures, improve data access speeds, reduce total cost of ownership, and advance the state of the art in high-performance storage.

We're excited about the possibilities this partnership creates and look forward to sharing more updates as our collaboration progresses.