Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
by pjmlp on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:08PM
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The results of the research being made into a product now, managed by a new foundation named Gen Z.
"BUD17-503 The HPE Machine and Gen Z" at Linaro Connect 2017
Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
by vram22 on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:58AM
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Thanks, will check that out.
Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
by lathiat on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:56PM
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Keith Packard also did a number of talks at linux.conf.au over the years about various bits and pieces of the machine
Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
by vram22 on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:09AM
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Interesting, thanks. I recognized his name as one who worked [1] on the X Window system, from a book in an X/Xlib/Motif course [2] I attended much earlier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard
Googled his name and found this:
A look at The Machine [LWN.net]:
https://lwn.net/Articles/655437/
[2] On a side note, Motif was pretty powerful. I remember a colleague of mine who was also in that course, creating a rudimentary app like MS Paint, in the class, in just half an hour or so - as the instructor was teaching, in fact. (Maybe he had studied it some before, of course.) As he demoed it to us, he went "Foo!" :)
A while ago (a few years?) there was some buzz about a new kind of machine from HP (maybe based on memristors? which were also in the news around then, IIRC), that was supposed to do away with that distinction. They called it The Machine or something like that (:-). I did not follow it at the time, after the initial read, so don't know what happened to it.