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The conventional von Neumann architecture has been revealed as a major performance and energy bottleneck for rising data-intensive applications. %, due to the intensive data movements. The decade-old idea of leveraging in-memory processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Bing Li , Bonan Yan , Hai , Li

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

The byte-addressable Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is a promising technology since it simultaneously provides DRAM-like performance, disk-like capacity, and persistency. The current NVM deployment is symmetric, where NVM devices are directly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Teng Ma , Mingxing Zhang , Kang Chen , Xuehai Qian , Yongwei Wu

Repeated off-chip memory accesses to DRAM drive up operating power for data-intensive applications, and SRAM technology scaling and leakage power limits the efficiency of embedded memories. Future on-chip storage will need higher density…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Lillian Pentecost , Alexander Hankin , Marco Donato , Mark Hempstead , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fast-growing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang

HPC applications pose high demands on I/O performance and storage capability. The emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) techniques offer low-latency, high bandwidth, and persistence for HPC applications. However, the existing I/O stack are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Wei Liu , Kai Wu , Jialin Liu , Feng Chen , Dong Li

Persistent or Non Volatile Memory (PMEM or NVM) has recently become commercially available under several configurations with different purposes and goals. Despite the attention to the topic, we are not aware of a comprehensive empirical…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Dimitrios Koutsoukos , Raghav Bhartia , Ana Klimovic , Gustavo Alonso

Data copy is a widely-used memory operation in many programs and operating system services. In conventional computers, data copy is often carried out by two separate read and write transactions that pass data back and forth between the DRAM…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as a promising solution for accelerating memory-intensive workloads as they provide high memory bandwidth to the processing units. This approach has drawn attention not only from the academic community…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Dongjae Lee , Bongjoon Hyun , Taehun Kim , Minsoo Rhu

This paper introduces a novel approach in neuromorphic computing, integrating heterogeneous hardware nodes into a unified, massively parallel architecture. Our system transcends traditional single-node constraints, harnessing the neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Murat Isik , Jonathan Naoukin , I. Can Dikmen

The growth of machine learning (ML) workloads has underscored the importance of efficient memory hierarchies to address bandwidth, latency, and scalability challenges. HERMES focuses on optimizing memory subsystems for RISC-V architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Pranav Suryadevara

With the imminent slowing down of DRAM scaling, Phase Change Memory (PCM) is emerging as a lead alternative for main memory technology. While PCM achieves low energy due to various technology-specific advantages, PCM is significantly slower…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Hamza Bin Sohail , Balajee Vamanan , T. N. Vijaykumar

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fastgrowing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Jiayi Liu , Kejie Huang

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures offer promising solutions for efficiently handling AI applications in energy-constrained edge environments. While traditional PIM designs enhance performance and energy efficiency by reducing data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sangmin Jeon , Kangju Lee , Kyeongwon Lee , Woojoo Lee

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Brian Crafton , Samuel Spetalnick , Arijit Raychowdhury

Modern enterprise servers are increasingly embracing tiered memory systems with a combination of low latency DRAMs and large capacity but high latency non-volatile main memories (NVMMs) such as Intel's Optane DC PMM. Prior works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sandeep Kumar , Aravinda Prasad , Smruti R. Sarangi , Sreenivas Subramoney

Large Language Models (LLMs) face a crucial challenge from fixed context windows and inadequate memory management, leading to a severe shortage of long-term memory capabilities and limited personalization in the interactive experience with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiazheng Kang , Mingming Ji , Zhe Zhao , Ting Bai

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Brian Crafton , Samuel Spetalnick , Gauthaman Murali , Tushar Krishna , Sung-Kyu Lim , Arijit Raychowdhury

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) features high density, DRAM comparable performance, and persistence. These characteristics position NVM as a promising new tier in the memory hierarchy. Nevertheless, NVM has asymmetric read and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ivy B. Peng , Maya B. Gokhale , Eric W. Green

Main memory (DRAM) significantly impacts the power and energy utilization of the overall server system. Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) devices, such as Phase Change Memory and Spin-Transfer Torque RAM, are suitable candidates for main memory to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Taeuk Kim , Safdar Jamil , Joongeon Park , Youngjae Kim