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I wrote this on dailytech, how does it sound ?
I'm gathering you didn't mean for this to be a "critique my DT post thread", but one could be mistaken.
I'll ask that posters comment on the idea of a DPU instead of the quality of the OP's post as we don't want this thread getting too exciting
n7
Memory/Storage Mod
I hope they also improved the endurance of the flash memory. Because wear leveling and other techniques to prevent the flash memory cel from degrading fast will not be enough. I know modern operating systems already caches and schedules writes to the HDD to improve performance but still, i doubt that flash technology is improved that much. I see somebody creating a new market...
A controller with 1GB of DDram memory for write caches and flash as read cache together with a traditional HDD for bulk storage would be much better. Design the controller that it can write the data in the DDram to the HDD on it's own if the OS desires it. A sort of display list but for HDD controllers. Maybe it is time that the HDD controller get's a little smarter and more versatile. A HDD controller with it's own DRAM interface and it's own flash memory interface and the traditional but stripped down for pure speed version of a HDD interface. It would be like moving the hdd controller on the HDD back to the motherboard again. Keeping only the necessary logic / ram and analog circuits on the HDD. Away with al the overhead.
Example : The lynnfield has a pci express controller on board. A second one could be used only for the data controller connected to the HDD ,flash and dram. Or use A hyper transport connection like AMD has. Strip it down enough to gain a low latency but sufficiënt in speed for the upcoming years.
We would have a system build up of a CPU, GPU and a DPU (data processing unit) . The DPU and main memory will in the future be fused together and be the same .
I'm gathering you didn't mean for this to be a "critique my DT post thread", but one could be mistaken.
I'll ask that posters comment on the idea of a DPU instead of the quality of the OP's post as we don't want this thread getting too exciting
n7
Memory/Storage Mod