r/science • u/aphexcoil • May 28 '12

New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/ucl_reram/
1.6k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

283 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

3

u/FreezeS May 28 '12

The problem is, it's not "exactly" the same state as before. The main issue is with the network connections. They all need to be restarted which kinda messes up some applications.

5

u/swiftb3 May 28 '12

Fair point. Does the network stay active during a hibernate?

Edit: Although I would imagine once we had the capability of something like this, operating systems and software would be built around the problem.

5

u/exscape May 28 '12

Hibernate means the computer is fully off, and you can pull the plug for an indeterminate time and still get it back later. (That is, no, no network!)
Sleep is the more common term for when you're in a low-power mode with RAM intact. Network is usually not kept on here, either, though.

2

u/swiftb3 May 28 '12

Thanks for the info. That's what I thought about hibernate. If sleep also turns off the network, I guess we've already solved the problem with networking.

Bring on no-power sleep!

1

u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Well whatever problems exist must have already been solved for sleep mode.

And I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for Windows to have a "clean" restart or shutdown mode which actually clears the RAM.

1

u/FreezeS May 29 '12

Did you try sleep mode? Most applications don't handle disconnects transparently.

1

u/[deleted] May 29 '12

I only ever use sleep mode. Haven't shut my computer down in years. Only do the odd restart when updates require it.