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Non-volatile memory (NVM) has the potential to disrupt the boundary between memory and storage, including the abstractions that manage this boundary. Researchers comparing the speed, durability, and abstractions of hybrid systems with DRAM,…
Byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) features high density, DRAM comparable performance, and persistence. These characteristics position NVM as a promising new tier in the memory hierarchy. Nevertheless, NVM has asymmetric read and…
Non-Volatile Main Memories (NVMMs) have recently emerged as promising technologies for future memory systems. Generally, NVMMs have many desirable properties such as high density, byte-addressability, non-volatility, low cost, and energy…
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…
Scalable nonvolatile memory DIMMs will finally be commercially available with the release of the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (or just "Optane DC PMM"). This new nonvolatile DIMM supports byte-granularity accesses with access…
Non-volatile memory (NVM) is an emerging technology, which has the persistence characteristics of large capacity storage devices(e.g., HDDs and SSDs), while providing the low access latency and byte-addressablity of traditional DRAM memory.…
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…
Non-volatile memory (NVM) provides a scalable and power-efficient solution to replace DRAM as main memory. However, because of relatively high latency and low bandwidth of NVM, NVM is often paired with DRAM to build a heterogeneous memory…
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…
Emerging non-volatile memory technologies (NVRAM) offer alternatives to hard drives that are persistent, while providing similar latencies to DRAM. Intel recently released the Optane drive, which features 3D XPoint memory technology. This…
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…
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,…
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…
In recent years, memory wall has been a great performance bottleneck of computer system. To overcome it, Non-Volatile Main Memory (NVMM) technology has been discussed widely to provide a much larger main memory capacity. Last year, Intel…
Software managed byte-addressable hybrid memory systems consisting of DRAMs and NVMMs offer a lot of flexibility to design efficient large scale data processing applications. Operating systems (OS) play an important role in enabling the…
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…
Solid-state memory is an essential component of the digital age. With advancements in healthcare technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for ultra-dense, ultra-low-power memory is increasing. In this review, we present a…
As the High Performance Computing world moves towards the Exa-Scale era, huge amounts of data should be analyzed, manipulated and stored. In the traditional storage/memory hierarchy, each compute node retains its data objects in its local…
High performance computing (HPC) applications have a high requirement on storage speed and capacity. Non-volatile memory is a promising technology to replace traditional storage devices to improve HPC performance. Earlier in 2017, Intel and…