How much life there is left in your storage? ProphetStor can tell you that. Also, academic researchers working on AI can avoid costly hardware purchases by using OpenExpress from a Korean university.
OpenExpress for NVMe
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed Open Express, an easy-to-access open NVMe controller hardware IP modules and firmware for future fast storage class memory research. Associate Professor Dr. Myoungsoo Jung from the Computer Architecture and Memory systems Laboratory (CAMELab), tells us: “OpenExpress fully automates NVMe data processing as hardware, which is a word-first open hardware NVMe controller to the best of my knowledge.”
Jung said: “The cost of third party’s IP cores (maybe similar to OpenExpress) is around $100K (USD) per single-use source code, but OpenExpress is free to download for academic research purposes. Our real storage card prototype using OpenExpress exhibits the world’s fastest performance without a silicon fabrication (better than an Intel Optane SSD).”
All the OpenExpress sources are ready to share online.
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