Western Digital (WD) targets in-memory computing with the Supercomputing 2018 launch of the Ultrastar DC ME200 memory extension drive-- a first product from the company designed to optimise in-memory system performance.
“Today’s requirement for faster analytics, data processing, cloud services and high-performance computing (HPC) is increasing demand for in-memory computing across a variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications and IT, and retail,” WD says. “By expanding in-memory capacity, the Ultrastar memory drive helps alleviate the high cost of adding extra DRAM, as well as addresses the physical limitations of available DIMM slots, where scaling is either cost-prohibitive or nearly impossible.”
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