- You-tube video on Google datacenters
- The FAWN project at CMU: optimizing queries/joule using small nodes.
- Gordon: Peta-scale Solid-state Storage Systems
- Technical overview of Facebook Haystack photo repository
- Slides from IBM on the role of non-volatile memory.
- Powerpoint slides from the InfoLunch discussion of RAMCloud on April 10, 2009.
- Memcached benchmarks on Nehalem - Sun benchmarks memcached, running on the latest Nehalem processors over 10G links (they get > 350k ops per second, with ~ 62% network and 52% CPU utilization)
- http://www.ddrdrive.com/ - an interesting block storage device implemented as 4 sticks of DDR (backed by flash) on a PCIe x1 board. 300000 IOPS (512 byte random reads and writes).
- "Drop ACID and think about data" (talk by Bob Ippolito): Video, Commentary/Summary
- Arista Web site: for their 48-port switches, latency is 0.9 µs.
- Talk by Andy Bechtolsheim on storage technologies
- Technical report on using MapReduce on top of memcached: Low-Latency, High-Throughput Access to Static Global Resources within the Hadoop Framework
- High Scalability blog article: written in March 2009 by Todd Hoff, covers a lot of the RAMCloud ideas and mentions several commercial products claimed to be shipping with memory-based solutions. Here are some additional Web pages that are related to this blog entry:
- Redis: a persistent main-memory key-value store; looks like it has pretty good performance.
- Facebook statistics
- Hash table performance measurements (from incise.org)
- NoSQL benchmark results from Yahoo!
- BitCask storage system
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