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Byte-addressable, non-volatile memory (NVM) is emerging as a promising technology. To facilitate its wide adoption, employing NVM in managed runtimes like JVM has proven to be an effective approach (i.e., managed NVM). However, such an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Daixuan Li , Benjamin Reidys , Jinghan Sun , Thomas Shull , Josep Torrellas , Jian Huang

Hybrid memory systems comprised of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and non-volatile memory (NVM) have been proposed to exploit both the capacity advantage of NVM and the latency and dynamic energy advantages of DRAM. An important…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yang Li , Jongmoo Choi , Jin Sun , Saugata Ghose , Hui Wang , Justin Meza , Jinglei Ren , Onur Mutlu

Emerging Persistent Memory technologies (also PM, Non-Volatile DIMMs, Storage Class Memory or SCM) hold tremendous promise for accelerating popular data-management applications like in-memory databases. However, programmers now need to deal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Ellis Giles , Kshitij Doshi , Peter Varman

SRAM-based cache memory faces several scalability limitations in deep nanoscale technologies, e.g., high leakage current, low cell stability, and low density. Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies have received lots of attention…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elham Cheshmikhani , Fateme Shokouhinia , Hamed Farbeh

Battery-less technology evolved to replace battery technology. Non-volatile memory (NVM) based processors were explored to store the program state during a power failure. The energy stored in a capacitor is used for a backup during a power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 SatyaJaswanth Badri , Mukesh Saini , Neeraj Goel

Persistent Memory (PM) is non-volatile byte-addressable memory that offers read and write latencies in the order of magnitude smaller than flash storage, such as SSDs. This survey discusses how file systems address the most prominent…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Wiebe van Breukelen , Animesh Trivedi

The memory demand of virtual machines (VMs) is increasing, while DRAM has limited capacity and high power consumption. Non-volatile memory (NVM) is an alternative to DRAM, but it has high latency and low bandwidth. We observe that the VM…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Sai sha , Chuandong Li , Yingwei Luo , Xiaolin Wang , Zhenlin Wang

Utilizing hardware transactional memory (HTM) in conjunction with non-volatile memory (NVM) to achieve persistence is quite difficult and somewhat awkward due to the fact that the primitives utilized to write data to NVM will abort HTM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Gaetano Coccimiglio , Trevor Brown , Srivatsan Ravi

This paper introduces NVCache, an approach that uses a non-volatile main memory (NVMM) as a write cache to improve the write performance of legacy applications. We compare NVCache against file systems tailored for NVMM (Ext4-DAX and NOVA)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Rémi Dulong , Rafael Pires , Andreia Correia , Valerio Schiavoni , Pedro Ramalhete , Pascal Felber , Gaël Thomas

The next-generation non-volatile memory (NVM) is striding into computer systems as a new tier as it incorporates both DRAM's byte-addressability and disk's persistency. Researchers and practitioners have considered building persistent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Chongnan Ye , Chundong Wang

Several emerging technologies for byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) have been considered to replace DRAM as the main memory in computer systems during the last years. The disadvantage of a lower write endurance, compared to DRAM,…

Systems that require high-throughput and fault tolerance, such as key-value stores and databases, are looking to persistent memory to combine the performance of in-memory systems with the data-consistent fault-tolerance of nonvolatile…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Brian Choi , Parv Saxena , Ryan Huang , Randal Burns

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) can deliver higher density and lower cost per bit when compared with DRAM. Its main drawback is that it is slower than DRAM. On the other hand, DRAM has scalability problems due to its cost and energy consumption.…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Diego Moura , Vinicius Petrucci , Daniel Mosse

While non-volatile memories (NVMs) provide several desirable characteristics like better density and comparable energy efficiency than DRAM, DRAM-like performance, and disk-like durability, the limited endurance NVMs manifest remains a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yi Zheng , Aasheesh Kolli , Shaizeen Aga

Neuromorphic architectures built with Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) can significantly improve the energy efficiency of machine learning tasks designed with Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). A major source of voltage drop in a crossbar of these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Twisha Titirsha , Anup Das

Modern NVMM is closing the gap between DRAM and persistent storage, both in terms of performance and features. Having both byte addressability and persistence on the same device gives NVMM an unprecedented set of features, leading to the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Rémi Dulong , Quentin Acher , Baptiste Lepers , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber , Gaël Thomas

At the end of Silicon roadmap, keeping the leakage power in tolerable limit and bridging the bandwidth gap between processor and memory have become some of the biggest challenges. Several promising Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) such as,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) cells are used in neuromorphic hardware to store model parameters, which are programmed as resistance states. NVMs suffer from the read disturb issue, where the programmed resistance state drifts upon repeated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Ankita Paul , Shihao Song , Twisha Titirsha , Anup Das

Given its high integration density, high speed, byte addressability, and low standby power, non-volatile or persistent memory is expected to supplement/replace DRAM as main memory. Through persistency programming models (which define…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhen Lin , Mohammad Alshboul , Yan Solihin , Huiyang Zhou

Compute-Near-Memory (CNM) systems offer a promising approach to mitigate the von Neumann bottleneck by bringing computational units closer to data. However, optimizing for these architectures remains challenging due to their unique hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Hamid Farzaneh , Asif Ali Khan , Jeronimo Castrillon