Certainly a better usage than...
"Just south of Croydon".
A presentation given at a conference on high-performance computing (HPC) in Poland earlier this month appears to have yielded new insight into Intel's Xeon server chip roadmap. A set of slides spotted by our sister site The Platform indicates that Chipzilla is moving toward a new server platform called "Purley" that will debut …
"Even more intriguing, Intel promises an "all new memory architecture" that delivers persistent data at four times the capacity of DRAM but at lower cost and 500 times the speed of NAND flash."
waddle...
wikipedia gives max ddr3 speed as 6400 MB per sec:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM
DDR4 supposedly "processes up to 17 GB of data per second" - which may not be the same as transfer speed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM
The currently fastest widely available nand SSD's top out at just over 500MB/s:
http://www.fastestssd.com/featured/ssd-rankings-the-fastest-solid-state-drives/
500*500MB/s = 250,000 MB/s (or 250GB/s)
So is their new tech over 14 times faster than the currently fastest DDR4? Or are they saying its 500 times faster than a usb flash drive from 2001 that they found at the back of a couch?
My car can go about half as fast as a turtle in free fall (thats a fairly accurate aproximation btw)
These numbers mean nothing.
"Even more intriguing, Intel promises an "all new memory architecture" that delivers persistent data at four times the capacity of DRAM but at lower cost and 500 times the speed of NAND flash."
So, what are the guesses on what this is and how it would be used? Intel was working with Micron on Phase Change Memory, but Micron apparently dropped their products from the market last year.
New Xeon announcements.
They show me what ill be buying off ebay for peanuts in 5 years time to build a workstation with.
Currently rocking two hex core 5690s and 128GB RAM.
For no reason other than it cost less then 300 quid to source the parts.
Runs like greased up buttery sh*t off a shovel.