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 Storage 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.