Author Archives: Dataram
New AMD Opteron-Based ProLiant Servers
- written by Jeff Goldenbaum, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member Dataram recently released ‘Smart DIMMs” for the newest AMD Opteron-based ProLiant servers from Hewlett-Packard. Dataram Smart DIMMs have undergone rigorous testing and validation in HP G8 servers with AMD Opteron … Continue reading
40 Years of Change in Main Memory Technology
~written by Jeff Duncan, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member In 40 years, memories have gone from less than 1K bytes capacity, a size of 15” x 15” x 1”, 2 microsecond speeds (0.000002 seconds) using core memory and no standards, … Continue reading
RAMDisk: A Gamer’s Perspective
~ written by Francis Symonoski, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member I have been a casual gamer most of my life and have enjoyed the evolution of games over the years, from coin-ops to consoles to the modern incarnations that we … Continue reading
More than the Eyes Can See – The Use of AOI (Automated Optical Inspection)
~ written by Guy Corsey, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member It has been well documented in Surface Mount Manufacturing that the better your solder pasting operation is, the better the manufacturing of your product. With smaller apertures, it has become … Continue reading
RAMDisk Software – What is RAMDisk?
~written by Nelson Rodriguez, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member A RAM disk, or RAM drive is software that creates a block of main memory made up of DRAM chips on DIMM modules (volatile memory) to unlock the full potential of … Continue reading
Storage – The Devil is in the Details!
~written by Michael Moore, Dataram Storage Blog Team Member Anyone who has engaged in the storage industry has certainly been challenged in many ways. We have all chased the elusive “perfect” solution; each of us has heard conflicting conclusions as … Continue reading
Computer In the Slow Lane? Consider More Memory.
~written by David Sheerr, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member How do you know if you need more memory? When your computer starts running slow, one of the first pieces of advice most people will give you is to put more … Continue reading
The Next Generation Servers (and Memory) Have Arrived
~written by Jeff Goldenbaum, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member Last week Intel announced their long anticipated Xeon E5-2600 processors, also known as Sandy Bridge-EP, for dual-socket servers. In turn, all of the major OEMs released details for their next generation … Continue reading
DDR3-1600 RDIMMs for SERVERS—HEAR—HEAR—HERE NOW!!
~written by Paul Henke, Dataram Memory Blog Team Member On the eve of Intel’s release of Sandy Bridge-EP, the next generation of Xeon processors for servers, the memory industry has geared up for another uptick in memory speed. Following Moore’s … Continue reading
Understanding the Nature of the “Cache Hit Ratio Curve”, Part 1
~written by Jason Caulkins, Dataram Storage Blog Team Member Starting back in the 1980s (and even prior), work was being done to identify how cache affects application performance in a typical compute environment. A very good series of work was … Continue reading
