Re: Interesting read on SCM upending software and hardware architecture

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Interesting read on SCM upending software and hardware architecture
Date: 2016-01-18 04:13:33
Message-ID: 20160118041333.GI31313@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 02:30:06PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2874238 discusses how modern
> Storage Class Memory (SCM), such as PCIe SSD and NVDIMMs are
> completely upending every assumption made about storage. To put this
> in perspective, you can now see storage latency that is practically
> on-par with things like lock acquisition[1].

How is this different from Fusion I/O devices, which have been around
for years?

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