SSDAlloc Memory expansion technology commercialized

Graduate student Anirudh Badam and Professor Vivek Pai have been working on exploiting solid-state disk (SSD) to expand the addressable memory that programs can use; they developed a hybrid memory allocator called SSDAlloc. Today, Fusion-io announced their Extended Memory technology resulting from a collaboration with Badam and Pai.

The press release can be seen at http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-and-princeton-university-scientists-team-up-to-seamlessly-extend-memory-from-dram-to-nand-flash/

and more details about SSDAlloc can be found at http://ssdalloc.cs.princeton.edu/