References that may be relevant to RAMCloud:
- Stonebraker et al., The End of an Architectural Era (It's time for a Complete Rewrite),
VLDB '07. Discusses limitations of current RDBMS, argues for "clean-slate" redesign of database systems. - Peta-Scale Solid State Storage at UCSD. A project for data-center storage based on Flash. Their ASPLOS'09 paper describes their custom node design and custom FTL FLASH remapping.
- The Apache UIMA frameworkthat could be useful as an application on top of RAMcloud.
- The Yahoo! PNUTS project : shares many goals with RAMCloud, including scalability and multi-tenancy. Not clear how much focus there is on main-memory storage, though.
- The FAWN project at CMU: optimizing queries/joule using small nodes.
- Gordon: Peta-scale Solid-state Storage Systems
- Scalable, Distributed Data Structures for Internet Service Construction, by Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and David Culler. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2000).