CN212341857U

CN212341857U - Intelligent storage device, system and hard disk cartridge

Info

Publication number: CN212341857U
Application number: CN202020934779.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘超; 魏齐良
Original assignee: Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-28
Filing date: 2020-05-28
Publication date: 2021-01-12
Anticipated expiration: 2030-05-28

Abstract

The utility model relates to an intelligent storage device, a system and a hard disk box, wherein the intelligent storage device comprises an AI processor and a memory, and the memory is connected with the AI processor through a storage interface; the AI processor receives the retrieval request, reads the database in the memory through the storage interface and retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain and send a retrieval result; the retrieval and analysis process is independently responsible for the AI processor and the memory in the intelligent storage device, the large-scale data handling of the CPU is not needed, the resource occupancy rate of the CPU is greatly reduced, and the single machine analysis retrieval efficiency is effectively improved.

Description

Intelligent storage device, system and hard disk cartridge

Technical Field

The present application relates to artificial intelligence technology, and in particular, to an intelligent storage device, system, and hard disk cartridge.

Background

The application field of the rapid development of the artificial intelligence technology is more and more extensive, and particularly, the artificial intelligence technology has a great deal of practical application in the aspect of face recognition. The manual investigation of the security field to magnanimity video image, record video is consuming time hard, and artificial intelligence makes the discernment in the trade compare the technique not only can use manpower sparingly, still promotes retrieval efficiency by a wide margin. Along with the increase of the human face library capacity, the requirement on computing power in the comparison and retrieval link is higher and higher. For example, a police officer who tries to find the last time face data on site can search the personal information of suspects and track their paths in the second level, however, the size of the bank of a police system usually saves the city level is hundreds of millions, and the requirement of quick retrieval on the system calculation and the reading speed of the bank is very high.

In the related art, a central processing unit CPU is connected to n intelligent modules through PCIE interfaces, and is connected to n storage devices through interfaces such as Non Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMe)/Serial Small Computer System Interface (SAS)/Serial hard disk Interface Technology (SATA). Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an intelligent module according to the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, after the CPU receives the retrieval command, the CPU needs to send the object to be retrieved to each intelligent module, then reads the structured database in each storage device, and carries a large amount of structured data to the intelligent module for analysis and retrieval. The CPU carries out rapid transportation and calculation on large-scale data, and occupies a great deal of bus bandwidth, consumes a great deal of CPU resources, and greatly reduces the efficiency of the whole system. With the increasing computing power of intelligent modules, insufficient data carrying bandwidth has become one of the bottlenecks of retrieval services.

Aiming at the problem of insufficient data carrying bandwidth in the intelligent identification process in the related technology, an effective solution is not provided at present.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a smart storage device, a system and a hard disk cartridge in order to solve the above technical problems.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an intelligent storage device including an AI processor and a memory, the memory being connected to the AI processor through a storage interface; the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by a Central Processing Unit (CPU), reads a database in the memory through the storage interface, retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain a retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to the CPU.

In one embodiment, the intelligent storage device further includes an interconnection interface, and the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by the CPU through the interconnection interface and sends the retrieval result to the CPU through the interconnection interface.

In one embodiment, the storage interface comprises at least one of: NVMe interface, SAS interface, SATA interface and eMMC interface.

In one embodiment, the memory includes at least one of: SSD, eMMC.

In one embodiment, the storage interface supports a RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) mode.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided an intelligent storage system, including an intelligent storage device and a CPU, wherein the intelligent storage device includes an AI processor and a memory, the AI processor is connected to the CPU through an interconnection interface, and the memory is connected to the AI processor through a storage interface; the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by the CPU through the interconnection interface, reads the database in the memory through the storage interface, retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain a retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to the CPU.

In one embodiment, the interconnect interface includes at least one of: PCIE interface, Ethernet interface and USB interface.

In one embodiment, the intelligent storage system comprises a plurality of CPUs, and the intelligent storage device is simultaneously connected with the plurality of CPUs through the interconnection interface.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a hard disk cartridge, characterized in that the hard disk cartridge comprises an AI processor and a memory, the memory being connected to the AI processor through a storage interface; the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by a CPU through an interconnection interface, reads a database in the memory through the storage interface and retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain a retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to the CPU through the interconnection interface.

According to the intelligent storage device, the system and the hard disk cartridge, the retrieval and analysis processes are independently responsible for the AI processor and the memory in the intelligent storage device, the large-scale data carrying of a CPU is not needed, the CPU resource occupancy rate is greatly reduced, and the single machine analysis and retrieval efficiency is effectively improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an intelligent module according to the related art of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a first schematic structural diagram of an intelligent storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent storage system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flow chart illustrating the operation of the smart storage system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, structures and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

The utility model provides an intelligent storage device can be applied to like the face identification technical field in the artificial intelligence technique, and this intelligent storage device can be applied to the computer equipment who is used for face identification retrieval on, above-mentioned computer equipment includes but not limited to various personal computer, notebook computer, smart mobile phone, panel computer, independent server or the server cluster that a plurality of servers are constituteed.

In one embodiment, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 2, in this embodiment, the intelligent storage device 20 includes an AI processor 22 and a memory 24:

alternatively, the AI processor 22 may be Hi3559A, TX2, etc., the Memory 24 may be a storage Hard Disk such as a Hard Disk Drive (HDD), a Solid State Disk (Solid State Disk), a MultiMedia Memory Card (MMC), etc., and the AI processor 22 and the Memory 24 are connected through a storage interface 26 corresponding to the above Memory, such as a Serial ATA (SATA) interface, an NVMe interface (Non-Volatile Memory Express), an SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI), an eMMC interface (Embedded Multi Media Card), etc.

The AI processor 22 receives the retrieval request, reads the database in the memory through the storage interface, and retrieves the data in the database according to the requirement in the retrieval request to obtain the retrieval result. In the application scenario of face recognition, the retrieval request usually includes a retrieval object, such as a face image or a face feature, which needs to be subjected to face recognition, and the AI processor 22, after receiving the retrieval object, quickly reads the database information in the memory 24 connected to the AI processor 22 and performs a comparison retrieval process. The AI processor 22 may be connected to one memory 24 or may be connected to a plurality of memories 24 at the same time, so as to obtain higher storage space and performance, and facilitate capacity expansion of the database stored in the AI processor 22. The processor that transmits the retrieval request to the AI processor 22 and the processor that receives the retrieval result transmitted by the AI processor 22 may be the same or different. Through the embodiment, the retrieval and analysis process is independently responsible for the AI processor in the intelligent storage module, the AI processor can be in wired or wireless communication with the CPU, the CPU which originally needs to carry out large-scale data carrying does not need to carry out large-scale data carrying, the resource occupancy rate of the CPU is greatly reduced, and the single machine analysis and retrieval efficiency can be effectively improved.

In an embodiment, fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the intelligent storage device 20 further includes an interconnection interface 32, and the AI processor 22 receives a retrieval request sent by the CPU34 through the interconnection interface 32, and sends the retrieval result to the CPU34 through the interconnection interface 32. In this embodiment, the smart storage device 20 further includes an interconnect interface 32 and interacts with the CPU34 through the interconnect interface 32: receives a retrieval request sent by the CPU34 and sends a retrieval result to the CPU 34. When receiving the search instruction, the CPU34 issues a search request to the AI processor 22, and the AI processor 22 receives the search request, reads the database in the memory through the storage interface 26, searches the data in the database according to the requirement in the search request, obtains a search result, and feeds back the search result to the CPU 34. In this embodiment, the intelligent storage device 20 is connected to the CPU34 through the interconnection interface 32 by wire and completes retrieval and feedback of results according to the retrieval request of the CPU34, and the CPU only participates in issuing commands and receiving results in the whole retrieval process, thereby reducing the requirement on the CPU bus bandwidth. The CPU34 and the smart storage device 20 communicate asynchronously through the interconnect interface 32 without direct memory writes, which may also reduce the latency of the CPU34 and reduce the consumption of CPU resources.

In one embodiment, the storage interface 26 includes, but is not limited to, at least one of: NVMe interface, SAS interface, SATA interface and eMMC interface; the interface types are common hard disk connection interfaces, so that the compatibility of the intelligent storage device is improved.

In one embodiment, memory 24 includes, but is not limited to, at least one of: SSD, eMMC. The SSD hard disk is widely applied to the monitoring field due to the characteristics of strong anti-seismic performance and wide working temperature range; the eMMC mainly aims at the standard specification of an embedded memory of products such as a mobile phone or a tablet personal computer, and the eMMC integrates a controller in packaging, provides a standard interface and can manage a memory. The present embodiments provide a preferred memory for implementing a smart storage device.

In one embodiment, the storage interface 26 supports a RAID mode, and the AI processor 22 in the intelligent storage device 20 may also implement a RAID function, which implements block access to data by striping data on a disk of the storage 24, reduces mechanical seek time of the disk, and improves data access speed; several disks in one array are read simultaneously, so that the mechanical seek time of the disks is reduced, and the data access speed is improved; through the mode of mirroring or storing parity check information, the redundancy protection of data is realized, and the reliability of storage is further improved.

According to another aspect of the present invention, fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent storage system according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, there is provided an intelligent storage system 30, where the intelligent storage system 30 includes an intelligent storage device 20 and a CPU34, the intelligent storage device 20 includes an AI processor 22 and a memory 24, the AI processor 22 is connected to the CPU34 through an interconnection interface 32, and the memory 24 is connected to the AI processor 22 through a storage interface 26; AI processor 22 receives the retrieval request sent by CPU34 through interconnection interface 32, and AI processor 22 reads the database in memory 24 through storage interface 26 and retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain the retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to CPU 34. The CPU34 is interconnected with one or more intelligent storage devices, and in one embodiment, the interconnection interface is generally a PCIE, ethernet, USB, or other interface, which improves the general compatibility of the intelligent storage device. The smart storage device 20 in the smart storage system 30 may be the smart storage device 20 in any of the above embodiments. The CPU only participates in the issuing and receiving of the command in the whole retrieval process, and the requirement on the bus bandwidth of the CPU is reduced. The CPU34 and the smart storage device 20 communicate asynchronously through the interconnect interface 32 without direct memory writes, which may also reduce the latency of the CPU34 and reduce the consumption of CPU resources. In one embodiment, the intelligent storage system comprises a plurality of CPUs, and the intelligent storage device is connected with the plurality of CPUs through the interconnection interfaces at the same time.

Fig. 5 is a flow chart illustrating the operation of the smart storage system 30 according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, which includes:

s510, the central processing unit CPU34 receives a retrieval instruction;

s520, the central processing unit CPU34 sends the object to be retrieved to each intelligent storage device 20;

s530, the AI processor 22 in the smart storage device 20 receives the retrieval request;

s540, the AI processor 22 quickly reads the structured database in the memory 24 connected with the AI processor for calculation, analysis and comparison;

s550, the AI processor 22 feeds back the retrieval result to the central processing unit CPU 34.

Because only signaling communication and compressed code stream transmission exist between the CPU34 and the intelligent storage module, the requirement on an interconnection bus is greatly reduced, high performance can be realized by a low-speed bus, and the expansion capability of the system is enhanced.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a hard disk cartridge, which includes an AI processor 22 and a memory 24, the memory 24 being connected to the AI processor 22 through a storage interface 26; AI processor 22 receives the retrieval request sent by CPU34 through interconnection interface 32, AI processor 22 reads the database in memory 24 through storage interface 26 and retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain the retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to CPU34 through interconnection interface 32. In one embodiment, the storage interface 26 includes, but is not limited to, at least one of: NVMe interface, SAS interface, SATA interface and eMMC interface. The intelligent storage device is made into a hard disk box, and the hard disk box is connected with the CPU through a common hard disk interface, so that the intelligent storage device can be effectively combined with the existing storage system, and the computing power and the storage capacity can be improved simultaneously.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. An intelligent storage device, which is characterized by comprising an AI processor and a memory, wherein the memory is connected with the AI processor through a storage interface; the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by a Central Processing Unit (CPU), reads the database in the memory through the storage interface, retrieves the database according to the retrieval request, obtains a retrieval result and sends the retrieval result to the CPU.

2. The intelligent storage device according to claim 1, further comprising an interconnection interface, wherein the AI processor receives the retrieval request sent by the CPU through the interconnection interface and sends the retrieval result to the CPU through the interconnection interface.

3. The smart storage device of claim 1 wherein the storage interface comprises at least one of: NVMe interface, SAS interface, SATA interface and eMMC interface.

4. The smart storage device of claim 1 wherein the memory comprises at least one of: SSD, eMMC.

5. The smart storage device of claim 1 wherein the storage interface supports a disk array RAID mode.

6. An intelligent storage system is characterized in that the intelligent storage system comprises an intelligent storage device and a CPU, the intelligent storage device comprises an AI processor and a memory, the AI processor is connected with the CPU through an interconnection interface, and the memory is connected with the AI processor through a storage interface; the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by the CPU through the interconnection interface, reads the database in the memory through the storage interface, retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain a retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to the CPU.

7. The smart storage system of claim 6 wherein the interconnect interface comprises at least one of: PCIE interface, Ethernet interface and USB interface.

8. The smart storage system of claim 6 wherein the storage interface comprises at least one of: NVMe interface, SAS interface, SATA interface and eMMC interface.

9. The intelligent storage system according to claim 6, wherein the intelligent storage system comprises a plurality of the CPUs, and the intelligent storage device is simultaneously connected with the plurality of the CPUs through the interconnection interface.

10. A hard disk cartridge, characterized in that the hard disk cartridge comprises an AI processor and a memory, the memory is connected with the AI processor through a memory interface; the AI processor receives a retrieval request sent by a CPU through an interconnection interface, reads a database in the memory through the storage interface and retrieves the database according to the retrieval request to obtain a retrieval result, and sends the retrieval result to the CPU through the interconnection interface.

11. The hard disk cartridge of claim 10, wherein the storage interface comprises at least one of: NVMe interface, SAS interface, SATA interface and eMMC interface.