Is a breakthrough? Russian ultra-fast method of recording information – Onet.pl

Polish-Dutch team of researchers has found a way to make a record of information in computers will be much more effective. This so-called cold technology of ultra-fast recording fotomagnetycznego. The revolutionary research was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal “Nature” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature20807).

- Thanks to our decision near future may be a computer that will not only work faster but also consumes less energy due to efficient memory. So, for example, through the application of our technology, 3D graphics, which are now rendering [processing] lasts for several tens of minutes, wygenerowałby in a few seconds. And the laptop would survive longer without charging, – says one of the authors of the edition Evgeny Szerenos, post-graduate student of the faculty of Physics of University of Bialystok.

however, As noted by a young physicist, the true potential of the solution will be especially noticeable in big server rooms or storage centers and data processing. There are savings – if we are talking about both time and energy required to save and process data – would be really full.

- Currently up to 5%. world electricity production is absorbed by these centers IT, and will soon rise to 7 percent. – informs study Director, Dr. of Sciences Andrey Stupakiewicz from the Department of Physics OHS. Pay attention to that when recording highlight quite a large amount of heat is so large that in order to protect data, you need to expend additional energy to cool the equipment.

However, as appreciated by the researchers of UVB, the new method will make it so that during recording the information (and reading), the temperature of the media will continue to grow, for example, only by 1 degree C. In this case cooling will not be superfluous. The system operates at room temperature.

Researchers from Poland showed that there is a material nieprzewodzący (grenade itrowo-iron doped with ions of cobalt, YIG:Co), in which to toggle one bit, just one laser pulse. The switching bit in this material, this process is reversible – they can be run many times.

- In relation to the currently used fast memory, we can get a thousand increase in speed of writing and reading data compares Andrew Stupakiewicz. The materials of the garnet structure available on the market, and, according to scientists – there would be problems with the improvement of their parameters to optimize the conservation and use of on a massive scale.

Scientists report that when writing 1-bit information system zużywałby very little energy – even to 10 000 times less than that entering on the market of the newest technology STT-MRAM, and even a billion times smaller than today’s hard drives.

the Research team from Bialystok was held with the support of the National Science Center. Now the Poles, together with the Dutch – seeking to obtain a European grant for the development of research. Within 5 years I want to build a prototype system that uses a new technology of cold ultra-fast recording fotomagnetycznego. They hope that new devices can be on the market even in 10 years.

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