<div dir="ltr">Can you find any NVMe anywhere?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Prentice Bisbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prentice.bisbal@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">prentice.bisbal@rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I'm my eternal quest for more RAM  , has anyone used zram with HPC applications?<br>
I suppose any gains would depend on how sparse /compressible the data you are holding in RAM is.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>Zram</a><br>
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If you're on an eternal quest for more RAM, have you looked at using an NVMe SSD device, or an UltraDIMM? They may not perform as fast as RAM, but you can get a lot more space for less money, so the capacity may make up for the shortfall in performance.<br>

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Obligatory links:<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVMe" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>NVMe</a><br>
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<a href="https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/it-management/intel-it-best-practices/advantages-of-solid-state-drives-for-design-computing-brief.html" target="_blank">https://www-ssl.intel.com/<u></u>content/www/us/en/it-<u></u>management/intel-it-best-<u></u>practices/advantages-of-solid-<u></u>state-drives-for-design-<u></u>computing-brief.html</a><br>

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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/175283-sandisk-announces-ulltra-dimms-terabytes-of-low-latency-flash-storage-directly-off-the-ram-channel" target="_blank">http://www.extremetech.com/<u></u>computing/175283-sandisk-<u></u>announces-ulltra-dimms-<u></u>terabytes-of-low-latency-<u></u>flash-storage-directly-off-<u></u>the-ram-channel</a><br>

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Prentice<br>
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