DearDRAM: Discard Weak Rows for Reducing DRAM's Refresh Overhead

X Zhan, Y Bao, N Sun - … Architecture: 12th Conference, ACA 2018, Yingkou …, 2018 - Springer
Due to leakage current, DRAM devices need periodic refresh operations to maintain the
validity of data in each DRAM cell. The shorter refresh period is, the more refresh overhead …

Method for refreshing dynamic random access memory and a computer system

Z Cui, M Chen, Y Huang - US Patent 10,007,599, 2018 - Google Patents
A method for refreshing a dynamic random access memory DRAM and a computer system
are provided. When an address of a refresh unit in a DRAM and refresh information of the …

DR refresh: Releasing DRAM potential by enabling read accesses under refresh

Y Cao, C Li, J Wang, W Zhang, Q Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging data analytic workloads such as graph processing, neural network and edge data
preprocesing desire efficient memory read operations. Unfortunately, due to the necessity of …

Dr dram: Accelerating memory-read-intensive applications

Y Cao, C Li, Q Chen, J Leng, M Guo… - 2018 IEEE 36th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today, many data analytic workloads such as graph processing and neural network desire
efficient memory read operation. The need for preprocessing various raw data also …

DARE: Data-Access Aware Refresh via spatial-temporal application resilience on commodity servers

C Chalios, G Georgakoudis… - … Journal of High …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Power consumption and reliability of memory components are two of the most important
hurdles in realizing exascale systems. Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) scaling …

SoftRefresh: Targeted refresh for Energy-efficient DRAM systems via Software and Operating Systems support

DT Nguyen, NM Ho, IJ Chang - Proceedings of the International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Due to its capacitive nature, DRAM cells must be refreshed regularly to retain their
information. However, due to the scale of DRAM deployment in modern computer systems …

大容量DRAM 的刷新开销问题及优化技术综述

崔泽汉, 陈明宇 - 计算机研究与发展, 2016 - cqvip.com
动态随机存储器(DRAM) 具有速度快, 密度高, 成本低的优势, 被广泛应用于计算机的主存.
DRAM 采用电容作为存储单元, 电容电荷的多少表示数字“0” 或“1”. 由于存在漏电现象 …

Access-aware DRAM failure-rate estimation under relaxed refresh operations

K Tovletoglou, DS Nikolopoulos… - 2017 International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest on relaxing the pessimistic DRAM refresh
rate due to the incurred power and throughput loss. Undeniably, a critical factor in …

[PDF][PDF] CLR-DRAM: A Low-Cost DRAM Architecture Enabling Dynamic Capacity-Latency Trade-Off

ETH Zürich - loisorosa.github.io
We implement CLR-DRAM by adding isolation transistors in each DRAM subarray. Our
evaluations show that CLR-DRAM can improve system performance and DRAM energy …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling and Design of Energy-efficient Dependable Memory Sub-systems

K Tovletoglou - 2021 - pure.qub.ac.uk
The rapid increase of processed data is driving the aggressive scaling of DRAM for meeting
the needs of higher memory density and bandwidth. As a result of the high memory demand …