Many, Many, Little Pieces Means Big Performance
Jesse Chan | May 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment
Are you seeing the trend for increasing performance?
Computing
Intel CPU multicore (currently, 8 cores)
NVIDIA/AMD GPU multicore (currently, hundreds of cores)
Storage
Fusion-IO Drive multiple flash RAM modules (currently, hundreds of modules)
Power
Tesla Motors vehicle power pack made up of multiple batteries (currently, hundreds of batteries)
Many little pieces working efficiently together with a controller is the formula. Whether for […]
Interview with Fusion-io
Jesse Chan | April 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments
The main bottleneck in computers today is not the CPU, but the mechanical hard disk drive (HDD). When an application mostly waits on the CPU to get things done, it’s called compute bound. On the other hand when it’s mostly waiting to get data in or out of storage, it’s called I/O bound. Because CPU […]