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- Synthesizing Hardware (Cisco, Nvidia)
- cpu bound?
- Rendering (Pixar, ILM, Disney)
- cpu bound?
- Simulation (weather, nuclear)
- cpu bound?
- Transactional (stock exchange, banks, credit card processing)
- Must be a 'to disk' component here including sync, could be a win
- MapReduce, batch processing
- Could be interesting, depending on the dataset size
- Web related
- Content Delivery (CDN)
- Pages requiring many low-locality queries returning small (define) sized data (Facebook, Myspace, Google, Yahoo, Ebay, etc)
- Pages requiring many high-locality (or small dataset) queries returning small (define) sized data (CNN, Slashdot)
Of the top 20 websites, these could likely largely benefit from RAMCloud
- Yahoo
- YouTube (not the video part)
- Windows Live
- MSN (how much is static and just cached?)
- Wikipedia (maybe?)
- Blogger.com
- Myspace
- Baidu (Chinese search engine)
- Yahoo Japan
- Google India
- Google Germany
- Google France
- Google UK
- WordPress.com