February 2013 – This years Solid State Circuit conference featured a processor session that was focusing on increasing cache size and more cores at low power. The rise in data size being handled by these units, has driven the systems to explore new architectures that are much more throughput oriented rather than MIPS/GFLOPs oriented. This [...]
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Garret Swart from Oracle identified the potential benefits for applications with the new storage architectures. The different memory structures and performance levels calls for new programming styles. With the advent of DRAM-compatible NVM technologies, the choices for NVM, connectivity, and form factors allows for greater diversity [...]
August 28, 2012, Hot Chips Symposium, Cupertino, CA—This year’s Hot Chips key topic was power management. Intel, AMD, and MIPS all talked about re-architecting the cache controller to reduce misses and, as a result, greatly reduce power. Other major changes included new logic cells and significant architectural changes in other functional units. Power and performance [...]
August 2012 – At Siggraph, Fusion I/O was showing their new PCIe interface card that uses MLC Flash to create a cache for graphics operating software (called the IOFX card). Available now in a 420GB or 512GB configuration (with retail pricing starting at $2495USD) the board is targeted at accelerating large data tasks with a [...]
April 4,2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, Ca—Eason Ho from Calypso Systems described the emerging SNIA performance test specifications for solid state storage devices. The emerging market is over due for some standardization as there is no common methodology, terminology, nor test environment for SSDs. Because of the lack of standards, it is difficult to [...]
March 1, 2011 – San Jose, CA – BTI Systems presented a solution for the bandwidth difficulties with increasing on-demand OTT content that is on the standard cable distribution lines. Their solution is to use a content aware, local network cache for the on-demand data. They have a created a caching appliance that uses a [...]
