From: Philip Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2008-09-11 16:43 >Tracy R Reed schrieb: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:49:21PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff spake thusly: >>> Yes, thats what FPGA means. :-) >> >> So why an FPGA? Are you trying to make a small or cheap dedicated >> appliance? Or is it somehow for performance? Is this a proprietary >>product for some company that wants to sell it or is a hobby project >>for you? > >Its a proprietary product. FPAGA because its a very specific >application which includes much more than the AoE Server.
Hello, Interesting thread you have launched Philip, we are more or less working on the same type of solution (maybe not for the same purpose). In fact we are currently testing an FPGA AoE target implementation which has been build from scratch by : 1/ http://www.logic-design-solutions.com/ - FPGA expert, I guess you already know them ;-) 2/ Us : http://www.alyseo.com/ - Storage, Linux expert. So far SATA IP is done, AoE IP is almost finalised, and we are thinking of RAID implementation (all that within one FPGA of course). Our first goal is to have an evaluation kit including : * FPGA with AoE IP, SATA IP maybe RAID (IP here mean Intellectual Property), * some NICs ports ( 2 x GbE or maybe 10 GbE), * A few SATA connector (for 2, 4 or more disks). As you can imagine performances expected is what we are focus on and we have plenty of ideas... which really make us confident on the fact this type of implementation will become the world fastest SAN(*) (we are not joking or doing any marketing stuff here, we are just engineers) ! To do so time and money are critical parameters (hardware design, kit and pre-release cost a lot) and we will appreciate your feedback on our project : * Will you think this project will be of interest for companies (end-users, OEM...) ? * Will some of you will or may purchase an AoE target kit for evaluation ? If yes, what features will you appreciate to have included (raid, number of disks.../...) and last but not least at what price ? * Which type of features would you like to see on final product (raid level, cli, web gui, type and number of network NICs, number of SATA disks(*), AoE only or some other protocols also, monitoring feartures.../...). Looking forward to have your feedback and we hope we will be able to keep you posted on our project. BTW if any of you know a business angel which have cash to put in a startup then ask him to contact us :) (*) Of course the world fastest SAN target we are think about will certainly not use any SATA drives (HDD or SSD) but more some embedded chips managed by FPGA/ASIC. PS: If you do not want to respond to the list then just drop me an email : yacine [AT] alyseo.com Regards, -- Yacine Kheddache Tel: +33 (0)6 60 66 81 53 http://www.alyseo.com/ - http://www.coraid.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
