by Steve Swanson on Apr 15, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, Persistent
Editors Note: This is the second of two independent posts on the performance of Intel’s new memory technology. For the last ten years, researchers have been anticipating the arrival of commercially available, scalable non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technologies...
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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 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 Steve Swanson on Mar 27, 2018 | Tags: Awards, Memory, non-volatile, Persistent
Earlier this month, the 9th annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop took place on the UC San Diego campus. This year, for the first time, the organizing committee created three awards to recognize some of the best work (new and old) in the field of non-volatile memory...
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by Steve Swanson on Nov 7, 2017 | Tags: Errors, Memory, Persistent, Storage
Integrating non-volatile main memories (NVMMs) into the storage/memory hierarchy make data integrity a critical design consideration. Protecting data in NVMM is a complex problem: media errors and software bugs can corrupt data and the reliability of each memory...
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