Will Scaleflux offer a consumer computational SSD for the everyday home user’s workstation?
Potentially in the future. The current drives are intended for servers.
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Performance and trade-offs
Will a future fourth-generation computational storage product offer random write performance higher than 700,000 IOPS for compressible data?
In the 4th generation of drives with our PCIe 5 ASIC, expect performance to be approximately 2x on all of the performance metrics. The current… Read More »Will a future fourth-generation computational storage product offer random write performance higher than 700,000 IOPS for compressible data?
How does ScaleFlux’s computational storage architecture contribute to minimizing data transfer and network overhead in distributed computing environments?
The ScaleFlux CSDs enable users to cache larger volumes of data in the compute nodes to reduce the need to thrash the local cache (which… Read More »How does ScaleFlux’s computational storage architecture contribute to minimizing data transfer and network overhead in distributed computing environments?
What type of performance increase over standard SSD’s should I expect?
In any workload involving a mix of read and write traffic, you can see 2x or more the performance of ordinary NVMe SSDs.
Do Scaleflux computational storage devices enable distributed and parallel processing to alleviate bottlenecks at the host CPU/DRAM on the network & storage I/O?
Yes, since each drive includes compression engines specifically designed to handle the per-drive data rates, you can scale your throughput linearly with each incremental drive… Read More »Do Scaleflux computational storage devices enable distributed and parallel processing to alleviate bottlenecks at the host CPU/DRAM on the network & storage I/O?
Will there be expected latency spikes and reduced performance while running uncompressed data on compressed drives on ScaleFlux computational storage?
No, though when data is incompressible (e.g., pre-encrypted), we won’t be able to leverage compression to improve performance and QoS. If you suddenly switch from… Read More »Will there be expected latency spikes and reduced performance while running uncompressed data on compressed drives on ScaleFlux computational storage?
Is computational storage slower than the CPU for compression?
Applications and servers see performance gains with ScaleFlux drives vs. other enterprise NVMe SSDs. By offloading the CPU from storage processing and optimizing flash memory… Read More »Is computational storage slower than the CPU for compression?
What kind of performance benefits can I expect to achieve with ScaleFlux products in terms of IOPs on mixed OLTP read/write workloads?
In mixed read/write workloads such as OLTP, customers report 2-4x increase in transactions per second. Since the CSD’s do not use CPU resources or host… Read More »What kind of performance benefits can I expect to achieve with ScaleFlux products in terms of IOPs on mixed OLTP read/write workloads?
How does Scaleflux affect CPU performance?
ScaleFlux frees up CPU cycles for your applications by taking on the burden of compression & decompression. With consistently lower response times from the drives,… Read More »How does Scaleflux affect CPU performance?