The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While he is coauthor of the paper discussed, he blogs anyway, because a benchmark suite can be valuable for driving better designs and comparisons. Since the dawn of computing, memory has been volatile, byte-addressable, and directly accessed with user-level reads and writes, while storage has been durable, block-addressesable, and accessed via system calls. Persistent Memory (PM) can change this by allowing user-level reads and writes direct byte-addressable access to emerging non-volatile memory technologies. Nevertheless, many systems will continue to have volatile memory (DRAM) in parallel with PM for lower energy writes and perhaps faster access. Initial PM systems have been developed using […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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