Comments on: The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/04/the-future-of-infrastructure-is-fluid/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:18:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/04/the-future-of-infrastructure-is-fluid/#comment-160607 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 15:01:09 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=138014#comment-160607 In reply to Cristian Vasile.

I could not agree more. So many components are fast and relatively cheap. The trick will be doing things that mask those different memory latencies. It’s a NUMA-ish problem, and we can solve it with a mix of very fast, medium fast, and not so fast memory. Just like we have done with the cache hierarchy inside CPUs.

]]> By: Cristian Vasile https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/04/the-future-of-infrastructure-is-fluid/#comment-160604 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 13:56:34 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=138014#comment-160604 “Flash is slow”
I feel that your are living in the past. The new bottleneck is memory bandwidth.
Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-threadripper-pro-workstation/

]]> By: Chris https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/04/the-future-of-infrastructure-is-fluid/#comment-160571 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:34:09 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=138014#comment-160571 Flash is slow as shit so it doesn’t matter, put it anywhere cause you’re gonna wait for IO.

DRAM and ReRAM memory is local to the CPU, and increasingly on-package with HBM, because of wire latency and the very very very high power consumption of long interconnects. If your fancy pants distributed memory takes longer than 20ns and 20pJ/bit for a random read, you can just sod off.

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