by Gurbinder Gill, Ramesh Peri and Keshav Pingali on Apr 11, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Graph algorithms, Memory, Persistent
Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules are like DRAM in form factor and can be configured as volatile main memory, persistent memory or as a combination.
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by Joy Arulraj and Spyros Blanas on Sep 3, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Memory, non-volatile
In a recent blog post, Steve Swanson presented three milestones that mark the adoption path of non-volatile memory by applications. The next step in this path is tailoring fundamental protocols and algorithms for non-volatile memory. We illustrate this point using...
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by Shyam Iyer on Aug 6, 2018 | Tags: Data center, Memory
Server architectures have largely been boring. Boring has been good. It has helped applications thrive in a stable H/W ecosystem and innovate at providing business logic. While performance improvements have largely been single thread performance improvements extended to data center class systems, we are beginning to see a new era in Server architecture designs driven by memory technologies, accelerators and fabrics like Gen-Z, CCIX and Open CAPI that glue them.
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X86, Memory centric architectures, Gen-Z, CCIX, Open CAPI
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by Steve Swanson on Jul 19, 2018 | Tags: Memory, non-volatile, Persistent
Mainstream non-volatile main memory (NVMM) is just around the corner: Intel is opening up access to their 3DXpoint technology to a broader range of companies, and we are gradually learning more about the technology. Despite our growing understanding, the question of...
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by Yuan Xie on Jul 12, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Memory, Near Data Computing, Specialization
A previous blog titled “Blurring the lines between memory and compute” by R. Das was a nice summary of the history and the recent trends on addressing the memory wall challenges with process-in-memory (PIM) ideas. This blog would like to further highlight...
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