Any other uses of memcached?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

I'm giving a few talks on memcached and writing an article for
LinuxJournal coming up here, so I too would be interested in who's using
it, and how....



On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jamie McCarthy wrote:

> I'm talking about memcached to my local LUG next week.  I wondered
> if anyone had any ideas for less-than-obvious uses for it.
>
> Its most obvious use is caching DB query results.
>
> A second use that I can think of is storing data for large-scale
> numerical processing, perhaps scientific modelling, where many CPUs
> have to work together on gigabytes of data, and the results of the
> number-crunching are small enough to be written to disk periodically
> (so if the power goes out, the most you lose is a few hours' work).
>
> Any other ideas?
> --
>   Jamie McCarthy
>  http://mccarthy.vg/
>   jamie@mccarthy.vg
>
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