MemVerge Spotlight Session: There is no Silver Bullet for Speeding COVID-19 Research, or is There?
DRAM was invented in 1969 and for over 50 years memory was scarce, expensive, and volatile. That’s why single-cell sequencing jobs have always loaded data from storage, and executed from small amounts of memory backed by virtual memory on disk or SSD.
Big Memory changes everything. Intel® Optane Persistent Memory is 1/3 the cost of DRAM and can persist data. Memory Machine™ software from MemVerge makes a mix of DRAM and PMEM go DRAM fast and transforms both into a pool of software-defined memory. The result is terabytes of data loads instantly, execution with data in memory is blazing fast, and thin clones of stages allows parallelism without adding server or memory resources.
There may be a silver bullet for accelerating your time-to-vaccine and time-to-saving lives! Learn more about it at the ASF Roundtable.