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 Jayashree Mohan and Vijay Chidambaram on Jul 14, 2021 | Tags: Machine Learning, Storage
Machine Learning (ML), specifically Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is stressing storage systems in new ways, moving the training bottleneck to the data ingestion phase, rather than the actual learning phase. Training these models is data-hungry, resource-intensive, and...
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by Ana Klimovic on Feb 2, 2021 | Tags: Cloud computing, Machine Learning, Storage, Systems
Machine learning (ML) — and in particular deep learning — applications have sparked the development of specialized software frameworks and hardware accelerators. Frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow offer a clean abstraction for developing and running...
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by Vijay Chidambaram on Mar 2, 2020 | Tags: Persistent, Storage
The world of storage is changing rapidly. We have exciting new technologies such as Intel DC Persistent Memory, along with new applications such as machine learning and blockchain which place new requirements on storage systems. Researchers are working on new...
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by Spyros Blanas on Jan 3, 2020 | Tags: Databases, Datacenters, HPC, Operating Systems, Persistent, Storage
More than a decade ago, the pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray envisioned a fourth paradigm of scientific discovery that uses computers to solve data-intensive scientific problems. Today, scientific discovery, whether observational, in-silico or experimental,...
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