Proceedings of the Workshop on 3-D Optical Memories (1st) Held in Snowbird, Utah on 12-13 March 1990.

Abstract : The first workshop on 3-D memories was held March 12-13, 1990, in Snowbird, Utah. The intent of the workshop was to bring together members of the optical storage and materials, computer architectures, and optoelectronic device communities to discuss issues associated with 3-D storage systems for various high-performance computers. The common concern among the diverse set of about 25 workshop participants was that storage is becoming a major limitation in terms of input/output bandwidth and capacity to achieving higher system performance, and will impede the future development of high performance computer system. The question was if and how 3-D memories can provide better storage devices.