Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 4. Virtual memory and virtual machines, which examined architecture support for protecting processes from each other via virtual memory and the role of virtual machines; ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

Memory Hierarchy Shakeup Gaps in the memory hierarchy have created openings for new types of memory, ... Based on a cross-point architecture, 3D XPoint is up to 1,000 times faster and has up to 1,000 ...

For example, how the cache hierarchy is laid out and what cache coherence protocol is used can have a great influence on the performance of the system. In this chapter, we start our discussion with ...

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Andrey Kudryavtsev from Intel presents: Reimagining the Data Centre Memory and Storage Hierarchy. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory represents a new class of ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that rethinks hardware data compression, freeing up more memory used by computers and mobile devices. Memory in modern computers manages and transfers data ...

A new technical paper titled “Reconfigurable Compute-In-Memory on Field-Programmable Ferroelectric Diodes” was recently published by researchers at University of Pennsylvania, Sandia National Labs, ...