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The increasing density of transistors in Integrated Circuits (ICs) has enabled the development of highly integrated Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and, more recently, Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). To address scalability challenges in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rodrigo Cataldo , Cesar Marcon , Debora Matos

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) can deliver higher density and lower cost per bit when compared with DRAM. Its main drawback is that it is slower than DRAM. On the other hand, DRAM has scalability problems due to its cost and energy consumption.…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Diego Moura , Vinicius Petrucci , Daniel Mosse

In this prompt report, we present the basic performance evaluation of Intel Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Module (Optane DCPMM), which is the first commercially-available, byte-addressable non-volatile memory modules released in…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ryousei Takano

Open-access neuroimaging datasets have reached petabyte scale, and continue to grow. The ability to leverage the entirety of these datasets is limited to a restricted number of labs with both the capacity and infrastructure to process the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Valerie Hayot-Sasson , Shawn T Brown , Tristan Glatard

Digital MemComputing machines (DMMs), which employ nonlinear dynamical systems with memory (time non-locality), have proven to be a robust and scalable unconventional computing approach for solving a wide variety of combinatorial…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuan-Hang Zhang , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) cells are used in neuromorphic hardware to store model parameters, which are programmed as resistance states. NVMs suffer from the read disturb issue, where the programmed resistance state drifts upon repeated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Ankita Paul , Shihao Song , Twisha Titirsha , Anup Das

This paper introduces a novel approach in neuromorphic computing, integrating heterogeneous hardware nodes into a unified, massively parallel architecture. Our system transcends traditional single-node constraints, harnessing the neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Murat Isik , Jonathan Naoukin , I. Can Dikmen

Shared virtual memory (SVM) is key in heterogeneous systems on chip (SoCs), which combine a general-purpose host processor with a many-core accelerator, both for programmability and to avoid data duplication. However, SVM can bring a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Andreas Kurth , Pirmin Vogel , Andrea Marongiu , Luca Benini

The explosion of IoT and wearable devices determined a rising attention towards energy harvesting as source for powering these systems. In this context, many applications cannot afford the presence of a battery because of size, weight and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Davide Pala , Ivan Miro-Panades , Olivier Sentieys

Memory system is often the main bottleneck in chipmultiprocessor (CMP) systems in terms of latency, bandwidth and efficiency, and recently additionally facing capacity and power problems in an era of big data. A lot of research works have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Licheng Chen , Tianyue Lu , Yanan Wang , Mingyu Chen , Yuan Ruan , Zehan Cui , Yongbing Huang , Mingyang Chen , Jiutian Zhang , Yungang Bao

GPU (graphics processing unit) has been used for many data-intensive applications. Among them, deep learning systems are one of the most important consumer systems for GPU nowadays. As deep learning applications impose deeper and larger…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Junzhe Zhang , Sai Ho Yeung , Yao Shu , Bingsheng He , Wei Wang

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

We introduce Rambrain, a user space library that manages memory consumption of your code. Using Rambrain you can overcommit memory over the size of physical memory present in the system. Rambrain takes care of temporarily swapping out data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Maximilian Imgrund , Alexander Arth

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

Compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators for spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising solutions to enable $\mu$s-level inference latency and ultra-low energy in edge vision applications. Yet, their current lack of flexibility at both the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nicolas Chauvaux , Adrian Kneip , Christoph Posch , Kofi Makinwa , Charlotte Frenkel

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 advent of deep learning has resulted in a number of applications which have transformed the landscape of the research area in which it has been applied. However, with an increase in popularity, the complexity of classical deep neural…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Venkatesh Rammamoorthy , Geng Zhao , Bharathi Reddy , Ming-Yang Lin

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

Modern computing systems are embracing non-volatile memory (NVM) to implement high-capacity and low-cost main memory. Elevated operating voltages of NVM accelerate the aging of CMOS transistors in the peripheral circuitry of each memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Shihao Song , Anup Das , Onur Mutlu , Nagarajan Kandasamy

Semiconductor NAND Flash based memory technology dominates the electronic Non-Volatile storage media market. Though NAND Flash offers superior performance and reliability over conventional magnetic HDDs, yet it suffers from certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Abhilash Garg , Supriya Chakraborty , Manoj Malik , Devesh Kumar , Satyajeet Singh , Manan Suri