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Archive of posts tagged: Storage
Engineering Reliable Persistence

Engineering Reliable Persistence

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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A Vision of Persistence

A Vision of Persistence

For decades, memory systems have relied on DRAM for capacity, SRAMs for speed and then turned programmers loose with malloc(), free(), and pthreads to build an amazing array of useful, carefully tuned, composable, and remarkably useful data structures.  However, these...

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