Flash-based storage system including reconfigurable circuitry

A system comprising:

• a serial interconnect network that includes a plurality of serial data communication paths that interconnect endpoints including:
• input/output (I/O) circuitry;
• a first server configured to provide a root complex to enable enumeration of identifiers of the endpoints and to establish a peer-to-peer address space that includes address ranges associated with the enumerated identifiers of the endpoints;
• an array of flash storage devices;
• and
• an integrated circuit (IC) component coupled to a cache memory;
• wherein the IC component is configured to translate addresses within data read and write requests that are sent from an external network and that are received by the I/O circuitry, between an address space used in the external network and the peer-to-peer address space, and wherein a cache control included in the IC component fulfills each of the data read and write requests using the peer-to-peer address space to access the cache memory coupled to the IC component before using the peer-to-peer address space to access the array of flash storage devices.