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 …

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 …

QUAC-TRNG: High-throughput true random number generation using quadruple row activation in commodity DRAM chips

A Olgun, M Patel, AG Yağlıkçı, H Luo… - 2021 ACM/IEEE 48th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
True random number generators (TRNG) sample random physical processes to create large
amounts of random numbers for various use cases, including security-critical cryptographic …

Benchmarking memory-centric computing systems: Analysis of real processing-in-memory hardware

J Gómez-Luna, I El Hajj, I Fernandez… - 2021 12th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many modern workloads such as neural network inference and graph processing are
fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, data movement between memory and …

HiRA: Hidden row activation for reducing refresh latency of off-the-shelf DRAM chips

AG Yağlikçi, A Olgun, M Patel, H Luo… - 2022 55th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells must be
periodically refreshed to prevent data loss. Refresh operations degrade system performance …

Towards efficient sparse matrix vector multiplication on real processing-in-memory architectures

C Giannoula, I Fernandez, J Gómez-Luna… - ACM SIGMETRICS …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-
Memory (PIM) architectures, after decades of research efforts. Near-bank PIM architectures …

DRAM bender: An extensible and versatile FPGA-based infrastructure to easily test state-of-the-art DRAM chips

A Olgun, H Hassan, AG Yağlıkçı… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security, and energy efficiency,
prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art …

PiDRAM: A Holistic End-to-end FPGA-based Framework for Processing-in-DRAM

A Olgun, JG Luna, K Kanellopoulos, B Salami… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Commodity DRAM-based processing-using-memory (PuM) techniques that are supported
by off-the-shelf DRAM chips present an opportunity for alleviating the data movement …

MIMDRAM: An End-to-End Processing-Using-DRAM System for High-Throughput, Energy-Efficient and Programmer-Transparent Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data …

GF Oliveira, A Olgun, AG Yağlıkçı… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Processing-using-DRAM (PUD) is a processing-in-memory (PIM) approach that uses a
DRAM array's massive internal parallelism to execute very-wide (eg, 16,384-262,144-bit …