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 …

Neural cache: Bit-serial in-cache acceleration of deep neural networks

C Eckert, X Wang, J Wang… - 2018 ACM/IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the Neural Cache architecture, which re-purposes cache structures to
transform them into massively parallel compute units capable of running inferences for Deep …

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 …

Google workloads for consumer devices: Mitigating data movement bottlenecks

A Boroumand, S Ghose, Y Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We are experiencing an explosive growth in the number of consumer devices, including
smartphones, tablets, web-based computers such as Chromebooks, and wearable devices …

A scalable processing-in-memory accelerator for parallel graph processing

J Ahn, S Hong, S Yoo, O Mutlu, K Choi - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
The explosion of digital data and the ever-growing need for fast data analysis have made in-
memory big-data processing in computer systems increasingly important. In particular, large …

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 …

PIM-enabled instructions: A low-overhead, locality-aware processing-in-memory architecture

J Ahn, S Yoo, O Mutlu, K Choi - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Processing-in-memory (PIM) is rapidly rising as a viable solution for the memory wall crisis,
rebounding from its unsuccessful attempts in 1990s due to practicality concerns, which are …

Computedram: In-memory compute using off-the-shelf drams

F Gao, G Tziantzioulis, D Wentzlaff - … of the 52nd annual IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In-memory computing has long been promised as a solution to the" Memory Wall" problem.
Recent work has proposed using chargesharing on the bit-lines of a memory in order to …

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 …