Persistent memory for transient data

Posted Jan 22, 2019 18:43 UTC (Tue) by sbates (subscriber, #106518)
In reply to: Persistent memory for transient data by Cyberax
Parent article: Persistent memory for transient data

Ha. I’d agree the rollout of Optane DIMMs has been disappointing to say the least. However the GCP alpha machines appear to be real. If you want to try and request access you can do so here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IByNBv-7n9FJ1cjGvrjcwILr...

The DRAM based NVDIMM-Ns however are very real and are used in production for storage and database workloads. However their cost and capacity make them less interesting (to
some) than their PM based counterparts.