To increase datacenter energy efficiency, we need memory systems that keep pace with processor efficiency gains. Currently, servers use DDR3 memory, which is designed for high b...
Krishna T. Malladi, Frank A. Nothaft, Karthika Per...
Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells must be periodically refreshed to prevent loss of data. These refresh operation...
Power consumption is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. Lowering the supply voltage of processors is one of the most effective techniques for improving their energy e...
Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, Xiang Pan, Radu T...
Chip multiprocessors enable continued performance scaling with increasingly many cores per chip. As the throughput of computation outpaces available memory bandwidth, however, the...
Doe Hyun Yoon, Min Kyu Jeong, Michael Sullivan, Ma...
To address the real-time processing needs of large and growing amounts of data, modern software increasingly uses main memory as the primary data store for critical information. T...
Doe Hyun Yoon, Jichuan Chang, Naveen Muralimanohar...