Compute is by far still the largest part of the hardware budget at most IT organizations, and even with the advance of technology, which allows more compute, memory, storage, and I/O to be crammed into a server node, we still seem to always want more. …
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
Petar Radokjovic, who leads the memory systems division at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, described his desk, messy with the latest research on next-generation memory systems for high performance computing, and says that for a time, the sight of them was enough to give him an ulcer. …
As noted at the beginning of this article series last week, an initial dive into in-memory computing meant questioning whether this was just another of those buzz words or whether there was some meat behind it. …
Chip makers and partners Intel and Micron Technology unveiled their jointly developed and manufactured 3D XPoint memory three weeks ago to much fanfare, but it is still perhaps sinking in to system architects and future system buyers how dramatic a move this is and how much it will change the memory hierarchy in systems and the applications that ride on it. …
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
There is little doubt that the memory ecosystem will heat up over the next five to ten years, with emerging technologies still in development that promise massive bandwidth, capacity, and price advancements. …
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