For what kinds of applications will RAMCloud offer a compelling advantage?

• Facebook, where the transaction rate is very high and there is very little locality of reference.

Lets consider some application categories that run in a datacenter/cloud setting:

• Synthesizing Hardware (Cisco, Nvidia)
• Rendering (Pixar, ILM, Disney)
• Simulation (weather, nuclear)
• Transactional (stock exchange, banks, credit card processing)
• Map Reduce, batch processing
• 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)
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