Non-volatile memory: Theory, Practice and Rampant Speculation!

Type: 
Talk (30 mins)
Location: 
Workshop Room (Room 316B)
Day: 
Sunday 2 October
Time: 
14:30
Abstract: 

Non-volatile (persistent) memory has attracted a lot of interest in recent years. New technologies such as MRAM, memristors and phase change memory are emerging as practical alternatives to Flash and may even unseat DRAM as the backbone of computing. This talk will provide a brief overview of: the underlying technologies, how non-volatile memory is supported in Linux, and what the future might hold.

Presenters: 
Oliver O'HalloranIBM
Biography: 

Oliver graduated from UQ in 2015 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After finishing his studies he spent a bit of time in a lab pointing lasers at stuff to see what happened. That didn't go so well, but while doing this he attended a thing called CompCon 2015. As a direct result he ended up at IBM's OzLabs in Canberra where he now works on Linux and the POWER8 firmware stack.