Towards an adaptable systems architecture for memory tiering at warehouse-scale

P Duraisamy, W Xu, S Hare, R Rajwar… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Fast DRAM increasingly dominates infrastructure spend in large scale computing
environments and this trend will likely worsen without an architectural shift. The cost of …

Beyond malloc efficiency to fleet efficiency: a hugepage-aware memory allocator

AH Hunter, C Kennelly, P Turner, D Gove… - … on Operating Systems …, 2021 - usenix.org
Memory allocation represents significant compute cost at the warehouse scale and its
optimization can yield considerable cost savings. One classical approach is to increase the …

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers

A Lagar-Cavilla, J Ahn, S Souhlal, N Agarwal… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Increasing memory demand and slowdown in technology scaling pose important challenges
to total cost of ownership (TCO) of warehouse-scale computers (WSCs). One promising idea …

[PDF][PDF] MULTI-CLOCK: Dynamic tiering for hybrid memory systems

A Maruf, A Ghosh, J Bhimani, D Campello… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
The rapid growth of in-memory computing powered by dataintensive applications has
increased the demand for DRAM in servers. However, a DRAM-based system can be …

Hierarchical hybrid memory management in OS for tiered memory systems

L Liu, S Yang, L Peng, X Li - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging hybrid DRAM-NVM architecture is challenging the existing memory
management mechanism at the level of the architecture and operating system. In this paper …

Nimble page management for tiered memory systems

Z Yan, D Lustig, D Nellans… - Proceedings of the Twenty …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Software-controlled heterogeneous memory systems have the potential to increase the
performance and cost efficiency of computing systems. However they can only deliver on …

Memtis: Efficient memory tiering with dynamic page classification and page size determination

T Lee, SK Monga, C Min, YI Eom - … of the 29th Symposium on Operating …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The evergrowing memory demand fueled by datacenter workloads is the driving force
behind new memory technology innovations (eg, NVM, CXL). Tiered memory is a promising …

Data tiering in heterogeneous memory systems

SR Dulloor, A Roy, Z Zhao, N Sundaram… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Memory-based data center applications require increasingly large memory capacities, but
face the challenges posed by the inherent difficulties in scaling DRAM and also the cost of …

Exploiting inter-and intra-memory asymmetries for data mapping in hybrid tiered-memories

S Song, A Das, N Kandasamy - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Modern computing systems are embracing hybrid memory comprising of DRAM and non-
volatile memory (NVM) to combine the best properties of both memory technologies …

Livia: Data-centric computing throughout the memory hierarchy

E Lockerman, A Feldmann, M Bakhshalipour… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In order to scale, future systems will need to dramatically reduce data movement. Data
movement is expensive in current designs because (i) traditional memory hierarchies force …