There was an all day program on their plans to develop open source programming tools and general standards to make use of the high speed, low latency and other special characteristics of current and future generations of non-volatile solid state storage.

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The trouble with this approach to the relatively slow interconnection of the processors, latency and lack of real-time security is that there are synchronization and communication challenges, software programming complexities and other issues that are exacerbated in a cloud computing environment.

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