Two-person team, 18 months in a basement.
Just got a flat, fixed-width lattice running 50 million persistent nodes on an 8 GB Jetson Orin Nano:
186 ns hot-path (≤ 3.2 cycles steady-state)
33× larger than RAM (disk-backed streaming)
Full crash & power-loss recovery (kill -9 or yank the cable)
CPU-only, no GPU, no cloud
30-second video on the page — raw tegrastats, no cuts, recorded this week.
We’ve never seen anything hit these numbers on commodity edge hardware before.
Curious what people think:
Does this actually solve a real problem for robotics / drones / autonomy?
Are there edge workloads where sub-200 ns persistent lookups would move the needle?
Has anyone else ever gotten close on a Jetson?
Happy to run live demos or share perf traces if anyone wants to break it
