Enterprise Datacenter Hardware Assumptions May Be In For a Shakeup (acm.org)

For the entire careers of most practicing computer scientists, a fundamental observation has consistently held true: CPUs are significantly more performant and more expensive than I/O devices. The fact that CPUs can process data at extremely high rates, while simultaneously servicing multiple I/O devices, has had a sweeping impact on the design of both hardware and software for systems of all sizes, for pretty much as long as we've been building them. This assumption, however, is in the process of being completely invalidated.

Comments

Re:You say performant, I say performance...

[jonnythan]

Performance is a noun. Performant is an adjective. I guess he could have said "faster"

Re:Can this entry be any more click bait?

[Penguinisto]

Same here.

Now if they found a way to practically combine RAM and disk into one unified whole, and made the two faster than frig (and able to reallocate on-the-fly w/ minimal disruption as the workload changed, maybe on a curve or as load >= n )? That would be news.

TFA... TFA has a lot of stuff to sift through to get anything of note out of it at all, and it wasn't much.