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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

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies promise memory speed byte-addressable persistent storage with a load/store interface. However, programming applications to directly manipulate NVM data is complex and error-prone. Applications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Pradeep Fernando , Irina Calciu , Jayneel Gandhi , Aasheesh Kolli , Ada Gavrilovska

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

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

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

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

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 computing systems are embracing hybrid memory comprising of DRAM and non-volatile memory (NVM) to combine the best properties of both memory technologies, achieving low latency, high reliability, and high density. A prominent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shihao Song , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy

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

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

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

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

With the availability of hybrid DRAM-NVRAM memory on the memory bus of CPUs, a number of file systems on NVRAM have been designed and implemented. In this paper we present the design and implementation of a file system on NVRAM called…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Chandan Kalita , Gautam Barua , Priya Sehgal

Performance and reliability are two prominent factors in the design of data storage systems. To achieve higher performance, recently storage system designers use DRAM-based buffers. The volatility of DRAM brings up the possibility of data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mostafa Hadizadeh , Elham Cheshmikhani , Maysam Rahmanpour , Onur Mutlu , Hossein Asadi

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) is promising for building future HPC. Leveraging the non-volatility of NVM as main memory, we can restart the application using data objects remaining on NVM when the application crashes. This paper…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jie Ren , Kai Wu , Dong Li

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 AI problem has no solution in the environment of existing hardware stack and OS architecture. CPU-centric model of computation has a huge number of drawbacks that originate from memory hierarchy and obsolete architecture of the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Viacheslav Dubeyko

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

NVM is used as a new hierarchy in the storage system, due to its intermediate speed and capacity between DRAM, and its byte granularity. However, consistency problems emerge when we attempt to put DRAM, NVM, and disk together as an…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Guoyu Wang , Xilong Che , Haoyang Wei , Chenju Pei , Juncheng Hu

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