Traditionally, databases and big data software have been built mirroring the realities of hardware: memory is fast, transient and expensive, disk is slow, permanent and cheap. But as hardware is ...

Cache and memory in the many-core era As CPUs gain more cores, resource management becomes a critical performance … ...

Advanced Micro Devices is announcing it is shipping its third-generation AMD Epyc processors with AMD 3D V-Cache.

Currently, TMO enables transparent memory offloading across millions of servers in our datacenters, resulting in memory savings of 20%–32%. Of this, 7%–19% is from the application containers, while ...

CXL memory is transforming data centers with high-speed, low-latency solutions essential for advanced applications such as AI and big data analytics.

In-memory data grids are gaining lot of attention recently because of their dynamic scalability and high performance. InfoQ spoke with Jags Ramnarayan about these data stores and their advantages.

Theemergence of non-volatile dual in-line memory modules, or NVDIMMs, addsa new tool for in-memory database durability. NVDIMMs take the form ofstandard memory sticks that plug into existing DIMM ...

Because IMDGs cache application data in RAM and apply massively parallel pro­cessing (MPP) across a distributed cluster of server nodes, they provide a simple and cost-effective path to dramatically ...

To prevent CPUs from using outdated data in their caches instead of using the updated data in RAM or a neighboring cache, a feature called bus snooping was introduced.