- Written by: Sean Gibb
We are excited to announce the production release of Eideticom’s Transparent Compression solution on our partner BittWare’s IA-440i Add-in Card with Intel Agilex-7 FPGA. In this blog we will be providing a summary of features/performance and why it’s important. As a quick background, Eideticom offers market-leading storage acceleration services for compression, encryption and data analytics. At Eideticom we have worked to address the computational storage market through our NoLoad solution which offers a promising avenue for customers to offload their CPUs for essential business functionality.
- Written by: Andrew Maier
Our partner Avalanche Technologies is showcasing the NoLoad® NVMe Computational Storage Processor (CSP) as an interface for the SpaceVPX platform at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View, CA, in conjunction with Trusted Semiconductors, Blue Halo, and Mercury Systems. The Space Drive combines the performance benefits of Eideticom’s NoLoad® Computational Storage Platform with Avalanche’s flagship Space Grade MRAM offering, STT-MRAM and specifically targets AI computing in space. Eideticom’s NoLoad platform is an innovative standards-based NVMe CSP solution to support increasing demand from the defense and commercial space communities for computation and storage. With its virtually infinite endurance, radiation resilience and compelling densities, Avalanche’s STT-MRAM provides a robust low latency storage technology for the rigors of space.
- Written by: Stephen Bates
At Eideticom we are incredibly excited by NVMe Computational Storage. Our existing NoLoad® products use NVMe to connect accelerators to applications, this provides our customers with an end-to-end computational storage solutions. Our customers see value in a rich, open-source, vendor-neutral software ecosystem for computational storage and that's what standards like NVMe can enable.
- Written by: Stephen Bates
We had a busy couple of weeks at Eideticom recently with Open Compute (OCP) Summit and the NVM Express Annual Meeting back-to-back. In this blog I wanted to fill you in on some of our activities at those two events.
- Written by: Super User
Eideticom is a leader in Computational Storage! Computational Storage is a new computer architecture initiative that aims to improve the performance, efficiency and cost of computer systems by moving computation tasks closer to the storage layer.
In this blog we will look back on a great 2018 for the Computational Storage initiative and look forward to 2019 and discuss some of the things we expect to see.
- Written by: Stephen Bates
On Sunday November 4th 2018 Linus Torvalds released the first candidate for the 4.20 Linux kernel and it includes the upstream version of the Eideticom Peer-to-Peer DMA (p2pdma) framework! This framework is an important part of the evolution of PCIe and NVM Express Computational Storage as it will allow NVMe and other PCIe devices to move data between themselves without having to DMA via CPU memory.
- Written by: Super User
Every year SNIA holds an event called Storage Developers’ Conference in San Jose. This year’s event was, as usual, an excellent technical conference attended by a Who’s Who of the storage architect world. As well as having excellent technical tracks this event is renowned for its networking with plenty of opportunities for hallway and bar conversations.
- Written by: Stephen Bates
In a previous blog I was very pleased to announce that Eideticom, in partnership with Xilinx, IBM and Rackspace, performed the first public demo of NVM Express at PCIe Gen4. In this blog I’d like to give a Mellanox ARM64 update to that work and tie it into the bringup of our U.2 NoLoadTM!
- Written by: Stephen Bates
I recently spoke at the NVMe Members forum on a topic near and dear to my heart. The topic was “Enabling the NVMe CMB and PMR Ecosystem” and was given with Oren Duer, Director of Storage Software at Mellanox. You can click on the links to the presentation and even better a link to a video recorded at the event.
- Written by: Stephen Bates
We take verification of our IP very seriously at Eideticom. While running test-benches against our new compression RTL core for our NoLoad NVMe accelerator we hit a bug. Turns out the bug was actually in the software version of zlib, a software library used for data compression and had lain in the code for 13 years. We reported the bug to Mark Adler and he pushed a fix to GitHub! Nice work Danilo Ramos, MSc, P.Eng and the others on the Eideticom team for tracking this down.
Here is the link to Mark’s zlib update on github: https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/5c44459c3b28a9bd3283aaceab7c615f8020c531
If you are interested in deploying offloaded compression in your NVM Express based systems give me a shout because the Eideticom NoLoad could be perfect for you!
- Written by: Stephen Bates, CTO
In this blog we are very pleased to announce, the U.2 version of our NoLoad™ NVM Express (NVMe) computational storage and offload engine. Working with our friends at Nallatech we have developed a ground-up solution for NVMe based offload for storage and analytics in a form-factor that is ideal for next-generation, NVMe based, storage and compute systems. We are very happy to have Allan Cantle (CTO and Founder at Nallatech, a Molex company) act as a co-author on today’s blog. Nallatech are our hardware partner in the development of the U.2 NoLoad™.
- Written by: Stephen Bates, CTO
I mentioned in my last blog that NVM Express (NVMe) is fast. Today it got even faster as we demonstrate, what we believe, is the first public domain demo of NVMe running over PCIe Gen4. This doubles the throughput of NVMe and allows systems built around NVMe to achieve performance levels that have been unobtainable before now.
- Written by: Stephen Bates, CTO
On February 14th Eideticom pushed some code into upstream Storage Performance Developers Kit (www.spdk.io and https://github.com/spdk/spdk) that enables new and interesting capabilities related to NVM Express (NVMe) SSDs with Controller Memory Buffers (CMBs). In this article I take a closer look at why we did that and why it’s good for the producers and users of NVMe devices.
- Written by: Roger Bertschmann
I’m very excited to share some details about work we at Eideticom recently did with Broadcom, one of our NIC partners, which led to our latest news release. Here is the backstory on why NoLoad™ FPGA compute disaggregation running via Broadcom’s NeXtreme SOC as described in the press release is groundbreaking.