Speeding Up Cloud/Server Applications With Flash Memory

Perspectives (Feb 6 2011)

1. Last week, Sudipta Sengupta of Microsoft Research dropped by the Amazon Lake Union campus to give a talk on the flash memory work that he and the team at Microsoft Research have been doing over the past year.  Its super interesting work. You may recall Sudipta as one of the co-authors on the VL2 Paper (VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network) I mentioned last October.   Sudipta’s slides for the flash memory talk are posted at Speeding Up Cloud/Server Applications With Flash Memory and my rough notes follow: ·         Technology has been used in client devices for more than a decade ·         Server side usage more recent and the difference between hard disk drive and flash characterizes brings some challenges that need to be managed in the on-device Flash Translation Layer (FTL)  or in the operating systems or Application layers. ·         Server requirements are more aggressive across several dimensions including ... (Read Full Article)

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