Memory Virtualization Enters The Enterprise Data Center

摘要

For years, distributed processing, whether across WANs, LANS, backplanes and now multiple cores has suffered from I/O and memory constraints. To create a rich user experience inevitably requires a large distributed pool of shared memory across the IT environment. Memory virtualization unleashes high-performance computing from existing commodity hardware by decoupling memory from the processor and server. Now one vendor has come up with some exciting technology to serve this market need. RNA Networks on February 2 announced the launch of its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) and first product, RNAmessenger, based on the MVP. Reliance on fragmented local server memory has been a key roadblock to optimizing performance in data center clusters, but memory virtualization eliminates size limits and slashes access times by providing distributed shared memory for all CPUs in a cluster.