by Xiangyao Yu on Apr 13, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Databases, Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Memory Disaggregation, Near Data Computing, Storage
The memory and storage hierarchy deepens in modern systems. To mitigate the low performance of memory/storage devices at the bottom of the hierarchy, near-data processing has been studied across different memory and storage devices as a means to reduce access latency...
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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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by Spyros Blanas on May 17, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Near Data Computing
The end of Dennard scaling has exposed a widening gap between the demand to process ever-growing datasets and the capability of modern computers to do so. In a quest to make data processing faster and more power-efficient, researchers are revisiting the decades-old...
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by Reetuparna Das on May 8, 2017 | Tags: Accelerators, Cache, Memory, Near Data Computing, Specialization
Computer designers have traditionally separated the role of storage and computation. Memories stored data. Processors computed them. Is this distinction necessary? A human brain doesn’t separate the two so distinctly, so why should a computer? Before I address this...
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