Main memory latencies have always been a concern for system performance. Given that reads are on the critical path for CPU progress, reads must be prioritized over writes. However...
As DRAM and other charge memories reach scaling limits, resistive memories, such as phase change memory (PCM), may permit continued scaling of main memories. However, while PCM ma...
Benjamin C. Lee, Ping Zhou, Jun Yang 0002, Youtao ...
Power consumption and DRAM latencies are serious concerns in modern chip-multiprocessor (CMP or multi-core) based compute systems. The management of the DRAM row buffer can signif...
Kshitij Sudan, Niladrish Chatterjee, David Nellans...
Phase change memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology with many attractive features: it is non-volatile, byte-addressable, 2–4X denser than DRAM, and orders of magnitude be...