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 …

We are experiencing an explosive growth in the number of consumer devices, including
smartphones, tablets, web-based computers such as Chromebooks, and wearable devices …

NAND flash memory is ubiquitous in everyday life today because its capacity has
continuously increased and cost has continuously decreased over decades. This positive …

User-facing, latency-sensitive services, such as websearch, underutilize their computing
resources during daily periods of low traffic. Reusing those resources for other tasks is rarely …

Many modern and emerging applications must process increasingly large volumes of data.
Unfortunately, prevalent computing paradigms are not designed to efficiently handle such …

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 …

Several system-level operations trigger bulk data copy or initialization. Even though these
bulk data operations do not require any computation, current systems transfer a large …

In this paper, we explore the possibility of using STT-RAM technology to completely replace
DRAM in main memory. Our goal is to make STT-RAM performance comparable to DRAM …

Modern DRAMs have multiple banks to serve multiple memory requests in parallel.
However, when two requests go to the same bank, they have to be served serially …

The energy consumption of DRAM is a critical concern in modern computing systems.
Improvements in manufacturing process technology have allowed DRAM vendors to lower …