Flash memory is being used as an acceleration layer in many enterprise applications and recent announcements by Macronix indicate that the write life endurance for flash memory cells can be increased considerably by locally exposing NAND flash memory cells to a high heat (about 800 C).

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Each node has 2-8 Xeon 5650 processors providing 6-48 coes and up to 768 GB of RAM, 1.3 TB of Fusion-io ioDrive PCIe flash cards and a mid-layer of up to 1.2 TB of Intel SSD storage.

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And those electrons drift up into a gas layer, and when they hit the gas and you get another flash of light.

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The top layer is a 48 GB cache for organizing the writing of data for better utilization of the flash memory in the other layers.

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The flash itself is actually a second image of the sun, caused by refraction of its light through the layer of air closest to the sea.

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