GriffinDB vs RocksDB Benchmarks for Blockchain
Overview We continue from the last technote about the collaboration between Coinplug and Circuit Blvd. We collect transient Transactions...
Blockchain setup on AWS and local machines
Overview Blockchain presents unique challenges to I/O and storage processing. Circuit Blvd has been working with Coinplug to enhance...
GPU based Computational Storage with Video Tagging Example
Overview GPUs have become a widely popular tool to perform various machine learning tasks. Circuit Blvd's Cinabro storage platform may...
Kubernetes and Docker setup for SPDK
Overview Circuit Blvd is building storage systems that can scale at data centers. We rely on Docker and Kubernetes (k8s) to manage the...
RocksDB in local vs NVMe-oF environment
Overview We would like to know how much impact NVMe-oF (NVMe-over-fabrics) have on real-world database applications. Let's use the...
Vhost vs local NVMe-over-fabrics targets
Overview We show how to set up vhost targets as a local SPDK storage service and measure the basic set of performance numbers in...
Video streaming application on SPDK OCSSD
Running applications on SPDK OCSSD We describe how applications run on SPDK OCSSD by typically partitioning the single physical SSD...
Qemu for SPDK OCSSD and NVMe-oF
Overview The SPDK community introduced OCSSD (Open-Channel SSD) ftl_bdev in January 2019. One way to develop host based FTLs in SPDK...
Cinabro Platform V1
Introduction In this article, we discuss Cinabro platform version 1. With Cinabro platform, we are aiming at a software driven, open...
Talk/Demo at SPDK Summit '19
We are excited to announce that Circuit Blvd., Inc. has been selected to present and showcase our demo at the 2019 SPDK Summit. The event...
Open-Channel SSD: Easy to build and use?
People easily guess that the Open-Channel SSD will ease the process of building SSDs. It's less than 30% true. The Open-Channel SSD...
Managing complexity
Software engineering is all about managing complexity - a well-known verse. The most difficult issue that software engineers experience...
Lessons from my previous startups
I started my corporate career in Samsung, and founded a flash memory software team. After helping the company to reach a top position...
Circuit Blvd., Inc presents its CINABRO architecture at OCP US Summit 2018.
We presented our CINABRO architecure on March 21st at OCP US Summit 2018. CINABRO is a software driven, open flash array architecture...
Circuit Blvd., Inc. demonstrates industry's first OCSSD array system with NVMe-oF
Circuit Blvd., Inc is an industry leader in OCSSD (Open-Channel SSD) based technologies. Our first prototype is based on FPGA OCSSD and...
Non-Volatile Memories Workshop '18
We participated in Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2018 (http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2018/) to present our CINABRO architecture. The annual...