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Steve Woo Application - Hybrid Flash / DRAM Memory Compute SystemThis looks interesting:<< BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0002] FIG. 1 is an illustration of a hybrid flash/DRAM memory module. [0003] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hybrid flash/DRAM compute subsystem. [0004] FIG. 3 is an illustration of a hybrid flash/DRAM memory module. [0005] FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a hybrid flash/DRAM compute subsystem. [0006] FIG. 5 is an illustration of a hybrid disk type nonvolatile storage and DRAM memory module.>> << DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS [0023] In an embodiment, nonvolatile memory (e.g., flash memory, solid-state disk) are included on memory modules that are on a DRAM memory channel. This helps the high capacity storage offered by nonvolatile memories to reside closer to the compute resources (i.e., CPU) of a system. In addition, the CPU and the nonvolatile memory can pass commands and/or data (possibly via a controller) using the relatively high bandwidth of the DRAM memory channel. [0024] Nonvolatile memory residing on a DRAM memory channel can be integrated into the existing file system structures of popular operating systems to facilitate adoption into popular programming paradigms. One such method of integration is to have the nonvolatile memory residing on a DRAM memory channel presented as part of, or all of, a distributed file system. For example, popular operating systems may be modified to present the nonvolatile memory residing on a DRAM memory channel as part of a network file system (NFS), Hadoop file system, and/or other distributed file systems (DFS). Remote procedure call (RPC) requests and/or requests originating from the local CPU (whether using the RPC mechanism/software layers, or another method), or information associated with local request and/or RPCs, may be routed to the memory modules over the DRAM memory channel in order to service compute and/or DFS commands.>> |
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Msg # | Subject | Author | Recs | Date Posted |
736689 | Re: Steve Woo Application - Hybrid Flash / DRAM Memory Compute System | twobytebus | 1 | 7/30/2014 5:21:56 PM |