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Finding the Perfect Memory
How to Build Cost-Effective, Blackout-Proof Servers, RAID Controllers, and Other Systems That Ride Through Power Failures... However Long They Last
The Problems with Memories
Memories are and always have been a thorny problem for designers of computers, servers, caching RAID and other caching hard-disk controllers, and many other types of processor-based embedded systems. Memorycentric design problems aren't unique to microprocessor-based systems and they even predate the semiconductor era. The problems go all the way back to day one. ENIAC, often called the world's first electronic computer, used punched paper cards for data storage. The one million punched cards needed to store the data for ENIAC's first shakedown program, which was developed by two Manhattan Project computer scientists in late 1945, filled an entire railroad boxcar when the scientists traveled from Los Alamos, New Mexico to ENIAC's birthplace at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. It quickly became apparent that such voluminous memory-storage technology needed radical improvement and memory has been shrinking ever since.
Flash Summit Presentation: Reliable Flash-Backed Cache Using Ultracaps.
Presented by Lane Hauck, AgigA Tech Sr Member of the Technical Staff.
August 17, 2010—Download Reliable Flash-Backed Cache Using Ultracaps presentation here.
Advanced Energy Storage Conference 2010: Ultracapacitors Provide a Novel Solution for a New Memory.
Presented by Lane Hauck, AgigA Tech Sr Member of the Technical Staff.
October 13, 2010—Download Ultracapacitors Provide a Novel Solution for a New Memory presentation here.