Very much so. Dumb sequential search in ram is probably faster than a fancy indexing scheme on disk. And if your data set fits in RAM, why not.
From: Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org>> on behalf of John Hearns <hear...@googlemail.com<mailto:hear...@googlemail.com>> Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 5:33 AM To: "beowulf@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>" <beowulf@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>> Subject: [Beowulf] Pretty Big Data Cubedrone has it today: http://cubedrone.com/ A very perceptive cartoon! And lets just think - with non-volatile RAM why don't we keep everything in RAM. Also look at this article by Nicole Hemsoth: http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/01/12/the-slow-death-of-the-parallel-file-system/ Burst buffer style storage on all your notes, writing down to a cheap, slow layer. the traditional parallel filesystem may have its days numbered. And I think this could happen faster than you think.
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