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We propose a novel solid-state disk (SSD) architecture that utilizes a double-data-rate synchronous NAND flash interface for improving read and write performance. Unlike the conventional design, the data transfer rate in the proposed design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Eui-Young Chung , Chang-Il Son , Kwanhu Bang , Dong Kim , Soong-Mann Shin , Sungroh Yoon

With the emergence of Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) and their shortcomings such as limited endurance and high power consumption in write requests, several studies have suggested hybrid memory architecture employing both Dynamic Random Access…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Reza Salkhordeh , Hossein Asadi

This paper summarizes the idea of Tiered-Latency DRAM (TL-DRAM), which was published in HPCA 2013, and examines the work's significance and future potential. The capacity and cost-per-bit of DRAM have historically scaled to satisfy the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Donghyuk Lee , Yoongu Kim , Vivek Seshadri , Jamie Liu , Lavanya Subramanian , Onur Mutlu

Recent Serverless workloads tend to be largescaled/CPU-memory intensive, such as DL, graph applications, that require dynamic memory-to-compute resources provisioning. Meanwhile, recent solutions seek to design page management strategies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuze Li , Shunyu Yao

Hybrid main memory systems combine both performance and capacity advantages from heterogeneous memory technologies. With larger capacities, higher associativities, and finer granularities, hybrid memory systems currently exhibit significant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yiwei Li , Boyu Tian , Mingyu Gao

Memory latency, bandwidth, capacity, and energy increasingly limit performance. In this paper, we reconsider proposed system architectures that consist of huge (many-terabyte to petabyte scale) memories shared among large numbers of CPUs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Samuel Dayo , Shuhan Liu , Peijing Li , Philip Levis , Subhasish Mitra , Thierry Tambe , David Tennenhouse , H. -S. Philip Wong

Heterogeneous Memory Architecture (HMA) aims to optimize memory usage by leveraging a combination of memory types, such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), commodity DRAM, and non-volatile memory (NVM), when utilized as main memory. To achieve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Upasna , Venkata Kalyan Tavva

Recent advances in logic schemes and fabrication processes have renewed interest in using superconductor electronics for energy-efficient computing and quantum control processors. However, scalable superconducting memory still poses a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jennifer Volk , Alex Wynn , Timothy Sherwood , Georgios Tzimpragos

Edge computing has become increasingly popular across many domains and enterprises. However, given the locality constraint of edges (i.e., only close-by edges are useful), multiplexing diverse workloads becomes challenging. This results in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Faria Kalim , Shadi A. Noghabi

When executing a deep neural network (DNN), its model parameters are loaded into GPU memory before execution, incurring a significant GPU memory burden. There are studies that reduce GPU memory usage by exploiting CPU memory as a swap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mingoo Ji , Saehanseul Yi , Changjin Koo , Sol Ahn , Dongjoo Seo , Nikil Dutt , Jong-Chan Kim

Shared virtual memory (SVM) is key in heterogeneous systems on chip (SoCs), which combine a general-purpose host processor with a many-core accelerator, both for programmability and to avoid data duplication. However, SVM can bring a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Andreas Kurth , Pirmin Vogel , Andrea Marongiu , Luca Benini

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for real-time intelligence on edge devices is rapidly growing. However, conventional hardware architectures face a fundamental memory wall challenge, where limited on-device memory capacity and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hongyi Guan , Yijia Zhang , Wenqiang Wang , Yizhao Gao , Shijie Cao , Chen Zhang , Ningyi Xu

The increasing demand for memory in hyperscale applications has led to memory becoming a large portion of the overall datacenter spend. The emergence of coherent interfaces like CXL enables main memory expansion and offers an efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Hasan Al Maruf , Hao Wang , Abhishek Dhanotia , Johannes Weiner , Niket Agarwal , Pallab Bhattacharya , Chris Petersen , Mosharaf Chowdhury , Shobhit Kanaujia , Prakash Chauhan

Memory system is often the main bottleneck in chipmultiprocessor (CMP) systems in terms of latency, bandwidth and efficiency, and recently additionally facing capacity and power problems in an era of big data. A lot of research works have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Licheng Chen , Tianyue Lu , Yanan Wang , Mingyu Chen , Yuan Ruan , Zehan Cui , Yongbing Huang , Mingyang Chen , Jiutian Zhang , Yungang Bao

Processing-using-DRAM (PUD) architectures impose a restrictive data layout and alignment for their operands, where source and destination operands (i) must reside in the same DRAM subarray (i.e., a group of DRAM rows sharing the same row…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Emanuele G. Esposito , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

The emergence of Phase-Change Memory (PCM) provides opportunities for directly connecting persistent memory to main memory bus. While PCM achieves high read throughput and low standby power, the critical concerns are its poor write…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yinjin Fu

Large language models (LLMs) are central to modern natural language processing, delivering exceptional performance in various tasks. However, their substantial computational and memory requirements present challenges, especially for devices…

The growth of cloud computing drives data centers toward higher density and efficiency. Data processing units (DPUs) enhance server network and storage performance but face challenges such as long hardware upgrade cycles and limited…

Processing-in-memory (PIM), as a novel computing paradigm, provides significant performance benefits from the aspect of effective data movement reduction. SRAM-based PIM has been demonstrated as one of the most promising candidates due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Cenlin Duan , Jianlei Yang , Xiaolin He , Yingjie Qi , Yikun Wang , Yiou Wang , Ziyan He , Bonan Yan , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Weitao Pan , Weisheng Zhao

Sequential computation is well understood but does not scale well with current technology. Within the next decade, systems will contain large numbers of processors with potentially thousands of processors per chip. Despite this, many…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-17 James Hanlon