[geeks] Future OS

[Nigel Williams]

> On 6 Feb 2016, at 4:38 AM, Nathan Raymond <nraymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any efforts to create a new OS that takes advantage of
> the change we'll see in the near future where storage and RAM will blend
> into just one pool of fast storage?

You might want to look at HPEbs The Machine [1], it is aimed at building
large-memory systems that scale.

http://www.labs.hpe.com/research/themachine/

http://keithp.com/blogs/the_machine_architecture/

There was a talk by one of the HPE architects at LCA2016 about their Linux
design. The prototype has a few hundred TB of memory, watch for the talk to
appear here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2016