
ohhh - in a good way
how long till they can move the whole os onto a seperate dedicated SAS array !
and leave our storage devices for storage and whatnot !
Intel has a new flash memory I/O acceleration system - codenamed Braidwood - coming for its CPUs, according to reports from Computex in Taiwan. It is a flash memory cache, possibly up to 16GB capacity, that caches I/O from the processor so that data in the I/O is available more quickly when it is next needed. Intel first tried …
Now we are talking. The whole OS, applications and whatnot now goes straight to cache running at 1.3GHz+. Cool. No more DDR3 ram to buy now, heh?
At this size, the cache BECOMES the main memory, right?
Seriously, didn´t you mean 16MB (instead of GB) cache?
Can you imagine the size of the uncore to fit this sucker? How long before a OS seller creates an OS so large that will occupy that sort of size too?