Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Spansion Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (3913)	6/26/2008 1:50:35 AM
From: NicoV	Respond to of 4590

IMO, it would be possible to make a system that uses both, but it is a much more challenging proposition. You need to have a chipset, BIOS, mobo and OEM willing to work with you, and time to market would be in years. Maybe not so challenging. Current multi socket Opteron systems are already NUMA systems, and the operating systems are already NUMA aware. You could put DRAM in the DIMMS connecting to one of the CPU sockets, and EcoRAM in all the others. The only thing that isn't yet in place is telling the OS not to use the EcoRAM for normal operations. And your applications would have to be adapted to read their data from the EcoRAM NUMA memory pool, but since search is all custom software, this is probably not much of a problem.