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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

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

Variable length coding for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies is a promising method to improve memory capacity and system performance through compressing memory blocks. However, compression techniques used to improve capacity or…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Seyed Mohammad Seyedzadeh , Alex K. Jones , Rami Melhem

Image bitmaps have been widely used in in-memory applications, which consume lots of storage space and energy. Compared with legacy DRAM, non-volatile memories (NVMs) are suitable for bitmap storage due to the salient features in capacity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Zhangyu Chen , Yu Hua , Pengfei Zuo , Yuanyuan Sun , Yuncheng Guo

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

Neuromorphic computing with non-volatile memory (NVM) can significantly improve performance and lower energy consumption of machine learning tasks implemented using spike-based computations and bio-inspired learning algorithms. High…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Shihao Song , Anup Das

The number and diversity of consumer devices are growing rapidly, alongside their target applications' memory consumption. Unfortunately, DRAM scalability is becoming a limiting factor to the available memory capacity in consumer devices.…

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, being accessible in the same manner as DRAM, are considered indispensable for expanding main memory capacities. Intel Optane DCPMM is a long-awaited product that drastically increases main memory…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ryousei Takano

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as PCM, ReRAM and STT-RAM allow processors to directly write values to persistent storage at speeds that are significantly faster than previous durable media such as hard drives or SSDs. Many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Nachshon Cohen , Michal Friedman , James R. Larus

Embedded machine learning (ML) systems have now become the dominant platform for deploying ML serving tasks and are projected to become of equal importance for training ML models. With this comes the challenge of overall efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Ahmet Inci , Mehmet Meric Isgenc , Diana Marculescu

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) and spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) have significant advantages compared to conventional SRAM due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ahmet Inci , Mehmet Meric Isgenc , Diana Marculescu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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