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We present a fully lock-free variant of the recent Montage system for persistent data structures. Our variant, nbMontage, adds persistence to almost any nonblocking concurrent structure without introducing significant overhead or blocking…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Wentao Cai , Haosen Wen , Vladimir Maksimovski , Mingzhe Du , Rafaello Sanna , Shreif Abdallah , Michael L. Scott

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

Non-volatile memory (NVM) is an emerging technology, which has the persistence characteristics of large capacity storage devices(e.g., HDDs and SSDs), while providing the low access latency and byte-addressablity of traditional DRAM memory.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Yinjun Wu , Kwanghyun Park , Rathijit Sen , Brian Kroth , Jaeyoung Do

Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a promising technology for low-energy and high-capacity main memory of computers. The characteristics of NVM devices, however, tend to be fundamentally different from those of DRAM (i.e., the memory device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Atsushi Koshiba , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ryousei Takano , Mitaro Namiki

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

The emergence of high-density byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) is promising to accelerate data- and compute-intensive applications. Current NVM technologies have lower performance than DRAM and, thus, are often paired with DRAM in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ivy Peng , Kai Wu , Jie Ren , Dong Li , Maya Gokhale

Byte-addressable non-volatile main memory (NVM) demands transactional mechanisms to access and manipulate data on NVM atomically. Those transaction mechanisms often employ a logging mechanism (undo logging or redo logging). However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Kai Wu , Jie Ren , Dong Li

The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Xuming Chen , Gourav Datta , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

Non-Volatile Main Memories (NVMMs) have recently emerged as promising technologies for future memory systems. Generally, NVMMs have many desirable properties such as high density, byte-addressability, non-volatility, low cost, and energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Haikun Liu , Di Chen , Hai Jin , Xiaofei Liao , Bingsheng He , Kan Hu , Yu Zhang

The emergence of systems with non-volatile main memory (NVM) increases the interest in the design of \emph{recoverable concurrent objects} that are robust to crash-failures, since their operations are able to recover from such failures by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Ohad Ben-Baruch , Danny Hendler , Matan Rusanovsky

Non-volatile memory (NVM) based compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators have emerged as a sustainable solution to significantly boost energy efficiency and minimize latency for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) inference due to their in-situ data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yifan Qin , Zheyu Yan , Wujie Wen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

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

Vector clock algorithms are basic wait-free building blocks that facilitate causal ordering of events. As wait-free algorithms, they are guaranteed to complete their operations within a finite number of steps. Stabilizing algorithms allow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Iosif Salem , Elad Michael Schiller

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

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

High-performance computing on shared-memory/multi-core architectures could suffer from non-negligible performance bottlenecks due to coordination algorithms, which are nevertheless necessary to ensure the overall correctness and/or to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Alessandro Pellegrini , Francesco Quaglia

We study the problem of constructing concurrent objects in a setting where $P$ processes run in parallel and interact through a shared memory that is subject to write contention. Our goal is to transform hardware primitives that are subject…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Michael A. Bender , Guy E. Blelloch , Martin Farach-Colton , Yang Hu , Rob Johnson , Rotem Oshman , Renfei Zhou

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 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

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