Concepedia

Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory

Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin İpek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee

2009 · 833 citations · 25 references

Concepts

EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceComputer ArchitectureMemoryStorage SystemsCachingMemory DevicesMemory Subsystem DesignFine-grained Access ControlNon-volatile Memory DesignNon-volatile Memory ManagementPersistent MemoryPersistent Memory StoragePersistent StoragePhase-change Memory

Abstract

Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies such as phase change memory (PCM) offer fast, fine-grained access to persistent storage.

References

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Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

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Moinuddin K. Qureshi, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Jude A. Rivers · 2009 · 1.3K citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems +17

The design and implementation of a log-structured file system

Mendel Rosenblum, John K. Ousterhout · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 1992 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +17

ARIES

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Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +13

Phase-change random access memory: A scalable technology

Simone Raoux, Geoffrey W. Burr, M. Breitwisch et al. · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 2008 · 1K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17