[Beowulf] zram usage

[Prentice Bisbal]

I thought SanDisk had a product out. I know of some products will be out 
soon, but that's under NDA so I can't be more specific.

Prentice

On 05/01/2014 03:27 PM, atchley tds.net wrote:
> Can you find any NVMe anywhere?
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Prentice Bisbal 
> <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu <mailto:prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/01/2014 07:31 AM, John Hearns wrote:
>
>         I'm my eternal quest for more RAM  , has anyone used zram with
>         HPC applications?
>         I suppose any gains would depend on how sparse /compressible
>         the data you are holding in RAM is.
>
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram
>
>
>
>     If you're on an eternal quest for more RAM, have you looked at
>     using an NVMe SSD device, or an UltraDIMM? They may not perform as
>     fast as RAM, but you can get a lot more space for less money, so
>     the capacity may make up for the shortfall in performance.
>
>     Obligatory links:
>
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVMe
>
>     https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/it-management/intel-it-best-practices/advantages-of-solid-state-drives-for-design-computing-brief.html
>
>     http://www.extremetech.com/computing/175283-sandisk-announces-ulltra-dimms-terabytes-of-low-latency-flash-storage-directly-off-the-ram-channel
>
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>     Prentice
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