BigTech: $250k of Persistent Memory w/Allyn

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Intro and Outro Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk
Other Music: "Lively" & "FollowHer" Zeeky Beats

[handspiker]

If Allyn is from Intel, they need to send him more often! He was a very refreshing as a PR person that actually seems excited about the tech.

[IAmPattycakes]

Allyn is as well spoken as a great PR rep, talking about stuff with the depth of knowledge of a senior engineer at Intel. Serious props, this was great to watch.

[Devilman]

Omg it's Allyn! I always loved his in depth knowledge about storage and memory and I remember this one story he told about being in a submarine and having to fix something before they got caught being somewhere they weren't supposed to be.

[GregReavis]

This is mad science of insanity. "I'm just gonna yeet 100GB in a second and see what happens. Oops the computer got scared acted weird."

[robertbernecky]

14:23 - In APL and J, we use memory-mapped I/O a lot. That lets us write clean, elegant algorithms that that have NO I/O, so we get superb performance and the mathematics is not hidden behind all that memory clutter. Several days of your basic database work turn into ten minutes of simple code that you can explain to your colleague when playing You Bet Your Company.

[norberto]

Nice to see you Allyn, excellent stuff as always.

[unclerubo]

I always love these nerd chats, even if they talk about stuff that is completely out of my reach.

[TrueRegulators]

Back in the day when Allyn was still at PCPer and reviewed the first optane products, he helped me pick optane disks as swap for plain old kvm hypervisors. It basically made our memory pool for virtualization about 3x in usable size with overcommitment in runtime state. Imagine the savings comparing optane SSDs to the same capacity of RAM...

please invite him more often!

[LampJustin]

Just awesome! ^^ Thanks Wendell and Allyn!

[Speef-kg]

I'm gonna be straight with you Wendell. This may be the next level content on this channel. I'm getting some serious "Jay Leno's garage" vibes from this video. 1 You bring in an interesting computer
2 have a passionate conversation about it and get into the details
3 You say "Can we take it for a spin" and do something fun with it.

[SirCrest]

Always great to hear from Allyn. Thanks for bringing him on for a few videos.

[aaronjackson]

I really liked this episode. Allyn was def a treat to watch as he appears to be genuine in his love for tech nerd deep dives.

[nextlifeonearth]

Would be interesting if the CPU had non volatile cache or a mirror of it so if you pull out the power cable and plug it back in it continues right where it left off in a millisecond.

[tonnylins]

Finally! That is what I've been expecting to happen since optane was first announced! It's very exciting!

[danielsmith]

The conversation about NUMA and cache migration/copying reminded me of the Extreme Black Magic involved in the SGI Altix systems I used to admin. Maintaining cache coherency across multiple rack cabinets is terrifying and amazing when you dive deep enough down the rabbit hole.

[ArcadiyIvanov]

"Not worried to be losing data". Even with "persistent storage" we're doing RAID etc to provide redundancy. Are we going to do PRAM RAID now? :D

[Kurukx]

Allyn always comes baring gifts :) Great stream.

[prodeous]

Another awesome storage chat. Eager for the next.

[Nobe_Oddy]

that was HELLA INSIGHTFUL!!! I have never given much thought to computing on this level, and it really is bonkers!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

[madfbar]

Thanks Wendel, this is the good stuff!