"The arrival of high-speed, non-volatile storage devices, typically referred to as Storage Class Memories (SCM), is likely the most significant architectural change that datacenter and software designers will face in the foreseeable future...
- The age-old assumption that I/O is slow and computation is fast is no longer true: this invalidates decades of design decisions that are deeply embedded in today's systems.
- The relative performance of layers in systems has changed by a factor of a thousand times over a very short time: this requires rapid adaptation throughout the systems software stack.
- Piles of existing enterprise datacenter infrastructure—hardware and software—are about to become useless (or, at least, very inefficient): SCMs require rethinking the compute/storage balance and architecture from the ground up."
Storage Class Memory at Almaden - IBM
IEEE Xplore Abstract - Storage-class memory: The next storage system technology
Software-defined memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Software-Defined Memory (SDM) is an evolving concept for the convergence of Storage and Memory, which for decades were two separate computing domains. Storage is a multi-layer software implementation outside of the realm of Computer Architecture (i.e. I/O subsystem). The memory subsystem is the exact opposite, it is an integral part of Computer Architecture & Microarchitecture and implemented by hardware engineers."
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