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 …

Ambit: In-memory accelerator for bulk bitwise operations using commodity DRAM technology

V Seshadri, D Lee, T Mullins, H Hassan… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Many important applications trigger bulk bitwise operations, ie, bitwise operations on large
bit vectors. In fact, recent works design techniques that exploit fast bulk bitwise operations to …

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 …

TRRespass: Exploiting the many sides of target row refresh

P Frigo, E Vannacc, H Hassan… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After a plethora of high-profile RowHammer attacks, CPU and DRAM vendors scrambled to
deliver what was meant to be the definitive hardware solution against the RowHammer …

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 …

Processing-in-memory: A workload-driven perspective

S Ghose, A Boroumand, JS Kim… - IBM Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many modern and emerging applications must process increasingly large volumes of data.
Unfortunately, prevalent computing paradigms are not designed to efficiently handle such …

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 …