Micron’s Ryan Baxter blogs on his recent trip to the Linley Data Center Conference.
“Though I left Boise the morning of February 5 at 0-dark-hundred to catch a puddle-jumper down to SFO, my morning fatigue soon waned as I found myself standing under bright lights at a Hyatt Regency podium a little after 10 a.m. addressing a room full of engineers and system architects.
This was my second appearance at the annual Linley Data Center Conference which was held in Santa Clara, CA February 5-6. One of several conferences put on by the well-respected research group, this event covers system design for data-center servers and networking, so I am definitely in my element with this crowd. I was the last of three speakers on a panel entitled Server Technology following presentations by Applied Micro Circuits and Freescale. My talk, called “Developing Scalable and Resilient Memory Systems with Hybrid Memory Cube,” which you can view below, focused on HMC adoption, comparative technologies today, and the status of the HMC Consortium. Read more here…