Micron Advances Persistent Memory with 32GB NVDIMM
November 13 2017 - 9:00AM
At the SC17 show, Micron Technology, Inc., (Nasdaq:MU) today
announced a new 32GB NVDIMM-N offering twice the capacity of
existing NVDIMMs, providing system designers and original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) with new flexibility to work with larger data
sets in fast persistent memory.
The solution is architected to support the increasing
performance, energy efficiency and uptime requirements of data
analytics and online transaction processing applications. Compared
to server configurations using traditional far storage, deploying
NVDIMMs can deliver up to 400 percent performance benefits.i
As data center storage volumes grow, database queries
increasingly need key datasets to be retained in-memory to improve
access speeds due to the rising business requirement for higher
availability. Many businesses are seeing increased value in placing
fast memory near the processor to reduce the need to transfer data
from far storage.
Persistent memory delivers a unique balance of latency,
bandwidth, capacity and cost by delivering ultra-fast DRAM speeds
for critical data. What sets it apart from standard server DRAM is
its ability to preserve information in the event of a power loss.
Micron’s technology provides a unique solution for near-memory data
analysis and addresses rising bandwidth demands of data-rich
applications in markets such as finance, medicine, retail, and oil
and gas exploration.
NVDIMM has emerged as a critical persistent memory technology
due to its ability to deliver the performance levels of DRAM
combined with the persistent reliability of NAND. It reduces the
bandwidth gap between memory and storage.
Applications which require frequent updates — such as journaling
or transactional logging of metadata — now have the capability to
leverage NVDIMM for these functions instead of traditional far
storage. Micron’s NVDIMM allows customers to raise read-centric
performance by 11 percent and write-centric performance by 63
percent for block level data.
"As data sets get larger and larger, data access becomes
increasingly critical to application performance,” said Tom
Eby, senior vice president for Micron's Compute and Networking
Business Unit. “Our new 32GB NVDIMM-N equips system architects with
a high-capacity persistent memory solution that can dramatically
increase throughput and improve total cost of ownership.”
VMware and Dell are collaborating with Micron to increase the
performance for virtualized applications. With virtual persistent
memory, customers can now run multiple operating systems in a
virtualized environment while reducing overall network traffic.
“As the global leader in cloud infrastructure and business
mobility, VMware recognized early the significant reduction of
database and local storage latencies that Micron NVDIMM-N can bring
to our virtualized customers using Dell PowerEdge servers,” said
Richard A. Brunner, chief platform architect and vice president of
Server Platform Technologies at VMware, Inc. “Using the 16 GB
NVDIMM-N from Micron for the Dell PowerEdge 14G servers, a future
version of VMware vSphere(R) intends to efficiently grow the number
and size of virtualized persistent memory workloads in the data
center while ensuring the benefits of live migration,
check-pointing, and legacy storage optimizations for NVDIMM. VMware
looks forward to the improvements that can arise when the server
industry starts deploying the new 32 GB Micron NVDIMM-N to our
customers.”
“Persistent memory solutions enables our customers to optimize
intensive database and analytics workloads,” said Robert Hormuth,
vice president and fellow, Server Division CTO at Dell EMC.
“Micron's advancement in persistent memory offering and Dell EMC
engineering efforts to enhance NVDIMM capability of PowerEdge
servers will boost application performance, reduce system crash
recovery time and enhance SSD endurance for our customers.”
Demonstrations of the new persistent memory solutions using
Micron NVDIMMs running on a Dell PowerEdge 14G server will be
showcased at SC17 at the Micron Booth (#1963).
Supporting resources
- A datasheet on the new 32GB NVDIMM-N is available here.
- Product photography can be downloaded here.
About MicronWe are an industry leader in
innovative memory and storage solutions. Through our global brands
— Micron®, Crucial® and Ballistix® — our broad portfolio of
high-performance memory and storage technologies, including DRAM,
NAND, NOR Flash and 3D XPoint™ memory, is transforming how the
world uses information to enrich life. Backed by more than 35 years
of technology leadership, our memory and storage solutions enable
disruptive trends, including artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and autonomous vehicles, in key market segments like
cloud, data center, networking and mobile. Our common stock is
traded on the NASDAQ under the MU symbol. To learn more about
Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com
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i Testing based on MSFT SQL2016 using NVDIMM-N as a write cache
which benefits from low latency byte-level transactions, removing
the overhead of both the IO bus and block mode operations of
non-write cache systems.
Public Relations Contact:Marc Musgrove +1 (208) 363-2405,
mmusgrove@micron.com
Investor Relations Contact: Shanye Hudson+1 (208) 492-1205,
shudson@micron.com
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