Month: March 2019

NVSL Publishes First Characterization of Intel 3DXPoint DIMMs

This week we released the full version of our report detailing the performance of Intel's 3DXPoint DIMMs (technically "Intel DC Optane Memory Modules").

The key takeaway is that these DIMMs are not just 'slower, persistent DRAM'. They have their own idiosyncrasies that programmers will have to wrestle with.