A modern primer on processing in memory

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - … computing: from devices …, 2022 - Springer
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This
design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause …

Benchmarking a new paradigm: Experimental analysis and characterization of a real processing-in-memory system

J Gómez-Luna, I El Hajj, I Fernandez… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many modern workloads, such as neural networks, databases, and graph processing, are
fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, the data movement between main …

Processing data where it makes sense: Enabling in-memory computation

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - Microprocessors and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Today's systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This design
choice goes directly against at least three key trends in systems that cause performance …

Rowhammer: A retrospective

O Mutlu, JS Kim - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This retrospective paper describes the RowHammer problem in dynamic random access
memory (DRAM), which was initially introduced by Kim et al. at the ISCA 2014 Conference …

Error characterization, mitigation, and recovery in flash-memory-based solid-state drives

Y Cai, S Ghose, EF Haratsch, Y Luo… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NAND flash memory is ubiquitous in everyday life today because its capacity has
continuously increased and cost has continuously decreased over decades. This positive …

Revisiting rowhammer: An experimental analysis of modern dram devices and mitigation techniques

JS Kim, M Patel, AG Yağlıkçı, H Hassan… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability, first rigorously analyzed and introduced in
2014, where repeatedly accessing data in a DRAM row can cause bit flips in nearby rows …

Uncovering in-dram rowhammer protection mechanisms: A new methodology, custom rowhammer patterns, and implications

H Hassan, YC Tugrul, JS Kim, V Van der Veen… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The RowHammer vulnerability in DRAM is a critical threat to system security. To protect
against RowHammer, vendors commit to security-through-obscurity: modern DRAM chips …

Blockhammer: Preventing rowhammer at low cost by blacklisting rapidly-accessed dram rows

AG Yağlikçi, M Patel, JS Kim, R Azizi… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from
RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating (ie, hammering) a DRAM row can …

DAMOV: A new methodology and benchmark suite for evaluating data movement bottlenecks

GF Oliveira, J Gómez-Luna, L Orosa, S Ghose… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data movement between the CPU and main memory is a first-order obstacle against improv
ing performance, scalability, and energy efficiency in modern systems. Computer systems …

A deeper look into rowhammer's sensitivities: Experimental analysis of real dram chips and implications on future attacks and defenses

L Orosa, AG Yaglikci, H Luo, A Olgun, J Park… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability where repeatedly accessing (ie,
hammering) a DRAM row can cause bit flips in physically nearby rows. The RowHammer …