Notes from Google "Flash" talk at UCSD non-volatile memories workshop
I was at the UCSD workshop on Non-Volatile Memories about three weeks ago, and had a surprisingly great time. I say "surprisingly" because I showed up at the reception the first night, realized I didn't know a single person there, and thought "uh-oh." That "uh-oh" turned into "ooh!" the next day -- I learned a surprising amount about the lower levels of contemporary nonvolatile memory technology and met some very cool folks. Many of the slides from the talks are online (though, as in all things, the hallway conversations were both unrecorded and perhaps as or more useful). But one of the stand-out talks isn't -- Al Borchers talk about Google's experiences with Flash memory. I've jotted down some highlights from the talk that jumped out at me. Caveat: These are filtered through my own interest, and a lot of what really jabbed in my head echos our own experiences with FAWN , and several reinforced things I said in my talk the day