MIT Researchers Improve Datacenter Cache Efficiency with Flash Memory

Campus Technology: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to reduce data center energy usage.

The team, from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory (CSAIL), reported that it can reduce energy requirements by using flash memory — the same kind used in smartphones — for data center caching.

A data center for a major service might have up to 1,000 servers devoted just to caching the most frequent database queries for faster access.

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