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