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Hybrid memory systems, comprised of emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) and DRAM, have been proposed to address the growing memory demand of applications. Emerging NVM technologies, such as phase-change memories (PCM), memristor, and 3D…

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

Long-term multi-agent systems inevitably generate vast amounts of trajectories and historical interactions, which makes efficient memory management essential for both performance and scalability. Existing methods typically depend on vector…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoran Xu , Jiacong Hu , Ke Zhang , Lei Yu , Yuxin Tang , Xinyuan Song , Yiqun Duan , Lynn Ai , Bill Shi

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…

Multipliers and multiply-accumulators (MACs) are fundamental building blocks for compute-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence. With the diminishing returns of Moore's Law, optimizing multiplier performance now necessitates…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Chenhao Xue , Yi Ren , Jinwei Zhou , Kezhi Li , Chen Zhang , Yibo Lin , Lining Zhang , Qiang Xu , Guangyu Sun

Discrete choice models (DCMs) have been widely utilized in various scientific fields, especially economics, for many years. These models consider a stochastic environment influencing each decision maker's choices. Extensive research has…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-13 Amirreza Talebi

Processing large numbers of key/value lookups is an integral part of modern server databases and other "Big Data" applications. Prior work has shown that hash table based key/value lookups can benefit significantly from using a dedicated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Joshua Landgraf , Scott Lloyd , Maya Gokhale

Accurate simulation techniques are indispensable to efficiently propose new memory or architectural organizations. As implementing new hardware concepts in real systems is often not feasible, cycle-accurate simulators employed together with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Nicolas Bueno , Fernando Castro , Luis Pinuel , Jose Ignacio Gomez-Perez , Francky Catthoor

Energy consumption has become a first-class optimization goal in design and implementation of data-intensive computing systems. This is particularly true in the design of database management systems (DBMS), which was found to be the major…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Peyman Behzadnia , Yi-Cheng Tu , Bo Zeng , Wei Yuan

Many high end and next generation computing systems to incorporated alternative memory technologies to meet performance goals. Since these technologies present distinct advantages and tradeoffs compared to conventional DDR* SDRAM, such as…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-06 M. Ben Olson , Brandon Kammerdiener , Kshitij A. Doshi , Terry Jones , Michael R. Jantz

The emerging hybrid DRAM-NVM architecture is challenging the existing memory management mechanism in operating system. In this paper, we introduce memos, which can schedule memory resources over the entire memory hierarchy including cache,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Lei Liu , Mengyao Xie , Hao Yang

With the widespread use of deep neural networks(DNNs) in intelligent systems, DNN accelerators with high performance and energy efficiency are greatly demanded. As one of the feasible processing-in-memory(PIM) architectures,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junpeng Wang , Mengke Ge , Bo Ding , Qi Xu , Song Chen , Yi Kang

It has become increasingly difficult to understand the complex interaction between modern applications and main memory, composed of DRAM chips. Manufacturers are now selling and proposing many different types of DRAM, with each DRAM type…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saugata Ghose , Tianshi Li , Nastaran Hajinazar , Damla Senol Cali , Onur Mutlu

Shared e-mobility services have been widely tested and piloted in cities across the globe, and already woven into the fabric of modern urban planning. This paper studies a practical yet important problem in those systems: how to deploy and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Man Luo , Bowen Du , Konstantin Klemmer , Hongming Zhu , Hongkai Wen

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…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shivank Garg , Aravinda Prasad , Debadatta Mishra , Sreenivas Subramoney

In order to boost the performance of data-intensive computing on HPC systems, in-memory computing frameworks, such as Apache Spark and Flink, use local DRAM for data storage. Optimizing the memory allocation to data storage is critical to…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Pengfei Xuan , Feng Luo , Rong Ge , Pradip K Srimani

We present Ramulator 2.0, a highly modular and extensible DRAM simulator that enables rapid and agile implementation and evaluation of design changes in the memory controller and DRAM to meet the increasing research effort in improving the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Haocong Luo , Yahya Can Tuğrul , F. Nisa Bostancı , Ataberk Olgun , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Onur Mutlu

The memory hierarchy has a high impact on the performance and power consumption in the system. Moreover, current embedded systems, included in mobile devices, are specifically designed to run multimedia applications, which are memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Josefa Díaz Álvarez , José L. Risco-Martín , J. Manuel Colmenar

At the allocation and deallocation of small objects with fixed size, the standard allocator of the runtime system has commonly a worse time performance compared to allocators adapted for a special application field. We propose a memory…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Christian Schuessler , Roland Gruber

This paper presents a set of models dedicated to describe a flash storage subsystem structure, functions, performance and power consumption behaviors. These models cover a large range of today's NAND flash memory applications. They are…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Pierre Olivier , Jalil Boukhobza , Eric Senn

Byte-addressable persistent memory (B-APM) presents a new opportunity to bridge the performance gap between main memory and storage. In this paper, we present the usage scenarios for this new technology, based on the capabilities of Intel's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Michele Weiland , Bernhard Homoelle