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This discovery should lead to very cheap NVRAM. What new ways of doing business will arise when a computer with 32x4GHz cores and 16 TB of memory costs $2000 T
by mleonhard 19y ago
This discovery should lead to very cheap NVRAM. What new ways of doing business will arise when a computer with 32x4GHz cores and 16 TB of memory costs $2000 TCO/year?
Disks will no longer be the performance bottleneck of cutting edge systems. Instead it will be network latency. I think that a very important problem will be the geographic distribution of information to minimize latency for users and maintaining consistency of those replicas.
Additionally, the current model of software installation will become obsolete. A very important current problem is how to deliver applications over the network with good performance and stability. I think that we need something better than the browser/DOM/JavaScript and the proprietary offerings from Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun.
These are two important problems that I am studying. What hard problems are you working on?