Following Intel’s Q2 earnings call announcing the wind-down of Intel’s Optane business, Intel will also be winding down its investment in new feature development on Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK) libraries and adjusting long-term support and maintenance plans accordingly. The PMDK …

This is the second part of the series of articles about memory tiering. The first one explained what memory tiering is and why we need it, the second one will explain some mechanisms behind transparent tiering. This article is intended for those who would like to learn how tiering/numa balancing or …

At a high level, computing solves problems. These problems, even though different and individual, are sometimes somehow related. A new algorithmic challenge can usually be solved by bringing it down to a well-defined problem with an existing solution. Today, we will be talking about one of such …