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Typical large-scale recommender systems use deep learning models that are stored on a large amount of DRAM. These models often rely on embeddings, which consume most of the required memory. We present Bandana, a storage system that reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Assaf Eisenman , Maxim Naumov , Darryl Gardner , Misha Smelyanskiy , Sergey Pupyrev , Kim Hazelwood , Asaf Cidon , Sachin Katti

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

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

As transistor-based memory technologies like dynamic random access memory (DRAM) approach their scalability limits, the need to explore alternative storage solutions becomes increasingly urgent. Phase-change memory (PCM) has gained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mahek Desai , Rowena Quinn , Marjan Asadinia

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

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…

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

Non-Volatile Memory offers the possibility of implementing high-performance, durable data structures. However, achieving performance comparable to well-designed data structures in non-persistent (transient) memory is difficult, primarily…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Nachshon Cohen , David T. Aksun , Hillel Avni , James R. Larus

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

Over the years of challenges on detecting the crash consistency of non-volatile persistent memory (PM) bugs and developing new tools to identify those bugs are quite stretching due to its inconsistent behavior on the file or storage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-22 Jahid Hasan

Non-volatile memory (NVM), also known as persistent memory, is an emerging paradigm for memory that preserves its contents even after power loss. NVM is widely expected to become ubiquitous, and hardware architectures are already providing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eleni Bila , John Derrick , Simon Doherty , Brijesh Dongol , Gerhard Schellhorn , Heike Wehrheim

Processing in memory (PiM) represents a promising computing paradigm to enhance performance of numerous data-intensive applications. Variants performing computing directly in emerging nonvolatile memories can deliver very high energy…

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

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

DIMM-compatible persistent memory unites memory and storage. Prior works utilize persistent memory either by combining the filesystem with direct access on memory mapped files or by managing it as a collection of objects while abolishing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Derrick Greenspan , Naveed Ul Mustafa , Zoran Kolega , Mark Heinrich , Yan Solihin

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

This paper proposes TRAININGCXL that can efficiently process large-scale recommendation datasets in the pool of disaggregated memory while making training fault tolerant with low overhead. To this end, i) we integrate persistent memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Miryeong Kwon , Junhyeok Jang , Hanjin Choi , Sangwon Lee , Myoungsoo Jung

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

Fast, byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) embraces both near-DRAM latency and disk-like persistence, which has generated considerable interests to revolutionize system software stack and programming models. However, it is less…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Mingyu Wu , Ziming Zhao , Haoyu Li , Heting Li , Haibo Chen , Binyu Zang , Haibing Guan

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