[wbuckley]

At a glance, this looks a lot like the underlying software running Texas Memory Systems' (now IBM) RamSan products, except built to run on off-the-shelf hardware of the user's choice, which is quite a nice development.

As a use-case example, those units have been in use for at least ten years by CCP Games [http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/press-rele... and http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/apocrypharrrrr...] as extreme-low-latency database storage for a fairly large cluster. At the time there were jokes of the staff needing to get special clearances just to see demo hardware before making their decision and eventual purchase due to restrictions related to their use by government and military customers.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying it or looking at it wrong, but I wanted to share my 2c while I was thinking about it. I'll take a better look later.