49 pointsby klelatti11 hours ago2 comments
  • woadwarrior018 hours ago
    > SSDs as Memory

    They've implemented mmap() in hardware. What a time to be alive?!

    nb: Related discussion on Samsung's PIM from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341

    • rbanffy7 hours ago
      In a couple more decades we might even get to the same sophistication as the AS/400…
  • oofbey2 hours ago
    This is such a novel and strange device. I can imagine it might be useful for a lot of things, but what? The non-Von Neumann architecture (putting compute next to memory) has been tried many times and AFAIK never taken hold. What would you use this for?
    • oofbey37 minutes ago
      Vector search is a great application for this. You can run the HNSW algorithm on the riscV cores local to the memory. Which is even better than GPU since it’s actually MIMD with tons of cores so each can follow its own branching logic. And a bunch of servers can share the RAM (read only) in the M1.