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Due to the system scaling, transient errors caused by external noises, e.g., heat fluxes and particle strikes, have become a growing concern for the current and upcoming extreme-scale high-performance-computing (HPC) systems. However, since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Chao Chen , Greg Eisenhauer , Santosh Pande

Persistent Memory (PM) technologies enable program recovery to a consistent state in a case of failure. To ensure this crash-consistent behavior, programs need to enforce persist ordering by employing mechanisms, such as logging and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Yasas Seneviratne , Korakit Seemakhupt , Sihang Liu , Samira Khan

We study abstraction for crash-resilient concurrent objects using non-volatile memory (NVM). We develop a library correctness criterion that is sound for ensuring contextual refinement in this setting, thus allowing clients to reason about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Artem Khyzha , Ori Lahav

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

In the non-volatile memory, ensuring the security and correctness of persistent data is fundamental. However, the security and persistence issues are usually studied independently in existing work. To achieve both data security and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Pengfei Zuo , Yu Hua , Yuan Xie

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…

Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures based on emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) devices have demonstrated great potential for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration thanks to their high energy efficiency. However, NVM devices suffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Persistent Memory (PMEM), also known as Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), can deliver higher density and lower cost per bit when compared with DRAM. Its main drawback is that it is typically slower than DRAM. On the other hand, DRAM has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Diego Moura , Vinicius Petrucci , Daniel Mosse

The current mobile applications have rapidly growing memory footprints, posing a great challenge for memory system design. Insufficient DRAM main memory will incur frequent data swaps between memory and storage, a process that hurts…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fei Wen , Mian Qin , Paul Gratz , Narasimha Reddy

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

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

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

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

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

Advances in storage technology have introduced Non-Volatile Memory, NVM, as a new storage medium. NVM, along with Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Solid State Disk (SSD), and Disk present a system designer with a wide array of options…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shahram Ghandeharizadeh , Sandy Irani , Jenny Lam

Phase-change memory (PCM) is a scalable and low latency non-volatile memory (NVM) technology that has been proposed to serve as storage class memory (SCM), providing low access latency similar to DRAM and often approaching or exceeding the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Shihao Song , Anup Das

Persistent Memory (PM) introduces new opportunities for designing crash-consistent applications without the traditional storage overheads. However, ensuring crash consistency in PM demands intricate knowledge of CPU, cache, and memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-25 João Oliveira , João Gonçalves , Miguel Matos

Compute-in-memory (CiM) architectures promise significant improvements in energy efficiency and throughput for deep neural network acceleration by alleviating the von Neumann bottleneck. However, their reliance on emerging non-volatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yifan Qin , Jiahao Zheng , Zheyu Yan , Wujie Wen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Neuromorphic computing systems uses non-volatile memory (NVM) to implement high-density and low-energy synaptic storage. Elevated voltages and currents needed to operate NVMs cause aging of CMOS-based transistors in each neuron and synapse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shihao Song , Jui Hanamshet , Adarsha Balaji , Anup Das , Jeffrey L. Krichmar , Nikil D. Dutt , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Francky Catthoor

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