This is pretty interesting.<p>It&#x27;s <i>possible</i> that people might confuse this bit...<p>&gt; The performance of SCMs means that systems must no longer &quot;hide&quot; them via caching and data reduction in order to achieve high throughput.<p>...in the original article with your mention of caching; by &quot;cache coherency,&quot; I assume you&#x27;re referring that your addon (card?) can introspect into the CPU cache? That&#x27;s pretty awesome if that&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening.<p>Some hopefully relevant questions from someone totally unfamiliar with this particular area:<p>- The original article mentioned &quot;RAM emulation&quot; (to put it crudely) as &quot;unstable.&quot; Do you have any comment on this?<p>- Do you happen to have any performance figures you can release?<p>- From the blog article and video I get the idea that this is POWER-specific. :) Are you aware of any alternative offerings for x86 that offer similar performance?<p>- What does this thing (I have no idea if it&#x27;s a card, a module...) look like? Being able to see &quot;the thing&quot; is generally really cool :)<p>My last question about POWER8 in general is arguably both on- and off-topic and might be a question for a different team, but do you know...<p>a) if&#x2F;when POWER8 will manage to escape from the datacenter and become accessible to developers in the hobbyist&#x2F;student sector? My understanding is that the architecture as it stands at the moment requires lots of different components that unavoidably require a lot of space; are you aware of any scaling-down efforts to produce (even (E)ATX-sized) POWER8 SBCs people can play with?<p>b) if&#x2F;when full-scale POWER8 systems will be available in the style of Heroku&#x2F;OpenShift, both of which have free tiers that allow for entry-level poking? I understand that RunAbove provided something along these lines with (1-?) POWER system(s), but that dried up some time ago, and I&#x27;m not aware of any replacements.<p>All in all, this Flash system looks pretty cool, and I can definitely say I wouldn&#x27;t mind being a fly on the wall for a day in your office, what with getting to play with 40TB of Flash (SSDs...?) - wow. :D