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SRAM-based cache memory faces several scalability limitations in deep nanoscale technologies, e.g., high leakage current, low cell stability, and low density. Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies have received lots of attention…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elham Cheshmikhani , Fateme Shokouhinia , Hamed Farbeh

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 operating systems are typically POSIX-compliant with major system calls specified decades ago. The next generation of non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies raise concerns about the efficiency of the traditional POSIX-based systems.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Viacheslav Dubeyko , Om Rameshwar Gatla , Mai Zheng

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

The next-generation non-volatile memory (NVM) is striding into computer systems as a new tier as it incorporates both DRAM's byte-addressability and disk's persistency. Researchers and practitioners have considered building persistent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Chongnan Ye , Chundong Wang

Traditional memory management suffers from metadata overhead, architectural complexity, and stability degradation, problems intensified in cloud environments. Existing software/hardware optimizations are insufficient for cloud computing's…

DRAM-based main memory and its associated components increasingly account for a significant portion of application performance bottlenecks and power budget demands inside the computing ecosystem. To alleviate the problems of storage density…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Fan Yao , Guru Venkataramani

Due to increasing cache sizes and large leakage consumption of SRAM device, conventional SRAM caches contribute significantly to the processor power consumption. Recently researchers have used non-volatile memory devices to design caches,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Sparsh Mittal

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

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

Energy harvesting systems have shown their unique benefit of ultra-long operation time without maintenance and are expected to be more prevalent in the era of Internet of Things. However, due to the batteryless nature, they suffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jianping Zeng , Jongouk Choi , Xinwei Fu , Ajay Paddayuru Shreepathi , Dongyoon Lee , Changwoo Min , Changhee Jung

Vilamb provides efficient asynchronous systemredundancy for direct access (DAX) non-volatile memory (NVM) storage. Production storage deployments often use system-redundancy in form of page checksums and cross-page parity. State-of-the-art…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Rajat Kateja , Andy Pavlo , Gregory R. Ganger

NVMs have promising advantages (e.g., lower idle power, higher density) over the existing predominant main memory technology, DRAM. Yet, NVMs also have disadvantages (e.g., limited endurance). System architects are therefore examining…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Reza Salkhordeh , Onur Mutlu , Hossein Asadi

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

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

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

Intel OptaneTM DC Persistent Memory resides on the memory bus and approaches DRAM in access latency. One avenue for its adoption is to employ it in place of persistent storage; another is to use it as a cheaper and denser extension of DRAM.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Alexandra Fedorova , Keith Smith , Keith Bostic , Alexander Gorrod , Sue LoVerso , Michael Cahill

At the end of Silicon roadmap, keeping the leakage power in tolerable limit and bridging the bandwidth gap between processor and memory have become some of the biggest challenges. Several promising Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) such as,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

Emerging applications, such as big data analytics and machine learning, require increasingly large amounts of main memory, often exceeding the capacity of current commodity processors built on DRAM technology. To address this, recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Manel Lurbe , Miguel Avargues , Salvador Petit , Maria E. Gomez , Rui Yang , Guanhao Wang , Julio Sahuquillo

Emerging non-volatile main memory (NVMM) is rapidly being integrated into computer systems. However, NVMM is vulnerable to potential data remanence and replay attacks. Established security models including split counter mode encryption and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Alexander Freij , Shougang Yuan , Huiyang Zhou , Yan Solihin