[mozumder]

Probably the optimal use of this technology is databases, since they rely most on random access to large persistent data.

Any operating system that's designed around this technology is probably going to look like a database.

Basically, boot to Postgres and all "files" are now SQL tables, stored in NVDIMM. Indexes are in DRAM, and critical nodes are in cache.

All data (system and user) is organized and opinionated: All photos are in a photo database, with tables for IPTC metadata. All music. All executable files. If you're browsing the web, it'll probably cache data in local SQL tables. etc..

I can envision using SQL stored procedures as actual apps, perhaps with an API to access graphics hardware, network, sound, etc..

[infogulch]

The entire information world is either a database or a cache (or communication between them), layered on top of each other over and over. Every new storage technology typically ends up being yet another layer as either database or cache (or both). This case is pretty unique in that it can actually serve to remove a layer: ram (typically a cache) is not necessary if nvs is viable at the same speeds. But in general new storage tech just adds another layer, which the software world reacts to by rushing in as if to fill a void by creating new software to take advantage of it which ends up being... another database or cache, often with similar tradeoffs to the layers of cache/database surrounding it. In the limit, I see more and more layers of cache/database until they merge into some kind of continuous data/cache field with a continuous tradeoff gradient between size and latency.

[freeone3000]

Hey, that sounds line a mainframe... I wonder what it'll take to get zOS running on commodity.

[mozumder]

Mainframes have always led the way in computer architecture.

[shawnz]

And yet z systems have now moved to PCI express, an interconnect designed for desktop PCs

[oblio]

They can afford to, considering how much one costs :)