Li: Memory-centric computing is the future of infrastructure architecture
Haoyuan "H.Y." Li · a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software · Jan 2, 2019 · at 26:24
Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li, co-creator of open-source project Tachyon and founder of Tachyon Nexus, explains the core thesis behind his memory-centric distributed storage system at UC Berkeley's AMPLab.
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“Memory-centric computing is the future, and you have compute layer of the storage layer, and we want to be the storage layer.”
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