Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM

Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by ChuckMcM on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:53PM (#13908588)

Yay! Nice to see these things becoming more real. The choice of U.2 is interesting, it might force wider adoption of that form factor.

This is definitely going to change the way you build your computational fabric. Putting that much data that close to the CPU (closeness here measured in nS) makes for some really interesting database and distributed data applications. For example, a common limitation in MMO infrastructure is managing everyone getting loot and changing state (appearance, stats, etc). The faster you can do those updates consistently the more people you can have in a (virtual) room at the same time.

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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by wtallis on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:12PM (#13908694)

The U.2 form factor has had no trouble catching on in the datacenter, which is where these first Optane SSDs are intended to be used. Intel is also offering standard half-height half-length add-in cards, and M.2 is simply too small to accommodate much 3D XPoint memory.

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