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Emerging Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) are promising contenders for building future memory systems. On the other side, unlike DRAM systems, NVMs can retain data even after power loss and thus enlarge the attack surface. While data encryption…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Amro Awad , Laurent Njilla , Mao Ye

Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a class of promising scalable memory technologies that can potentially offer higher capacity than DRAM at the same cost point. Unfortunately, the access latency and energy of NVM is often higher than those of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 HanBin Yoon , Justin Meza , Rachata Ausavarungnirun , Rachael A. Harding , Onur Mutlu

The emerging hybrid DRAM-NVM architecture is challenging the existing memory management mechanism in operating system. In this paper, we introduce memos, which can schedule memory resources over the entire memory hierarchy including cache,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Lei Liu , Mengyao Xie , Hao Yang

This paper explores the implications of employing non-volatile memory (NVM) as primary storage for a data base management system (DBMS). We investigate the modifications necessary to be applied on top of a traditional relational DBMS to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Naveed Ul Mustafa , Adri`a Armejach , Ozcan Ozturk , Adrian Cristal , Osman S. Unsal

In recent years, there is an increasing demand of big memory systems so to perform large scale data analytics. Since DRAM memories are expensive, some researchers are suggesting to use other memory systems such as non-volatile memory (NVM)…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Gaoying Ju , Yongkun Li , Yinlong Xu , Jiqiang Chen , John C. S. Lui

Non-volatile Memory (NVM) technologies present a promising alternative to traditional volatile memories such as SRAM and DRAM. Due to the limited availability of real NVM devices, simulators play a crucial role in architectural exploration…

DRAM-based main memories have read operations that destroy the read data, and as a result, must buffer large amounts of data on each array access to keep chip costs low. Unfortunately, system-level trends such as increased memory contention…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Justin Meza , Jing Li , Onur Mutlu

Computing-in-memory with emerging non-volatile memory (nvCiM) is shown to be a promising candidate for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) with high energy efficiency. However, most non-volatile memory (NVM) devices suffer from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Emerging computing architectures such as near-memory computing (NMC) promise improved performance for applications by reducing the data movement between CPU and memory. However, detecting such applications is not a trivial task. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Stefano Corda , Gagandeep Singh , Ahsan Javed Awan , Roel Jordans , Henk Corporaal

Non-volatile memory (NVM), aka persistent memory, is a new paradigm for memory that preserves its contents even after power loss. The expected ubiquity of NVM has stimulated interest in the design of novel concepts ensuring correctness of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Eleni Bila , Simon Doherty , Brijesh Dongol , John Derrick , Gerhard Schellhorn , Heike Wehrheim

Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) is a novel type of hardware that combines the benefits of traditional persistent memory (persistency of data over hardware failures) and DRAM (fast random access). In this work, we describe an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Vitaly Aksenov , Ohad Ben-Baruch , Danny Hendler , Ilya Kokorin , Matan Rusanovsky

The study of concurrent persistent programs has seen a surge of activity in recent years due to the introduction of non-volatile random access memories (NVRAM), yielding many models and correctness notions that are difficult to compare. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Naama Ben-David , Michal Friedman , Yuanhao Wei

NVMs have promising advantages (e.g., lower idle power, higher density) over the existing predominant main memory technology, DRAM. Yet, NVMs also have disadvantages (e.g., limited endurance). System architects are therefore examining…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Reza Salkhordeh , Onur Mutlu , Hossein Asadi

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

Emerging non-volatile main memory (NVRAM) technologies provide byte-addressability, low idle power, and improved memory-density, and are likely to be a key component in the future memory hierarchy. However, a critical challenge in achieving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Guy E. Blleloch , Yan Gu

Fault tolerance is one of the major design goals for HPC. The emergence of non-volatile memories (NVM) provides a solution to build fault tolerant HPC. Data in NVM-based main memory are not lost when the system crashes because of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Shuo Yang , Kai Wu , Yifan Qiao , Dong Li , Jidong Zhai

Software managed byte-addressable hybrid memory systems consisting of DRAMs and NVMMs offer a lot of flexibility to design efficient large scale data processing applications. Operating systems (OS) play an important role in enabling the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shivank Garg , Aravinda Prasad , Debadatta Mishra , Sreenivas Subramoney

Non-volatile main memory (NVMM) allows programmers to build complex, persistent, pointer-based data structures that can offer substantial performance gains over conventional approaches to managing persistent state. This programming model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Lu Zhang , Steven Swanson

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) and spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) have significant advantages compared to conventional SRAM due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ahmet Inci , Mehmet Meric Isgenc , Diana Marculescu

Large persistent memories such as NVDIMM have been perceived as a disruptive memory technology, because they can maintain the state of a system even after a power failure and allow the system to recover quickly. However, overheads incurred…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jie Zhang , Miryeong Kwon , Donghyun Gouk , Sungjoon Koh , Nam Sung Kim , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir , Myoungsoo Jung