Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory

By Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin C. Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2009

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture

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Citations in the corpus

Memory persistency (2014, methodology): “Although intuitive and suitable to speciﬁc applications, we wish to investigate a more general framework for reasoning about NVRAM write ordering, including mechanisms for expressing write constraints that are independent of speciﬁc concurrency control mechanisms.”
FPTree: A Hybrid SCM-DRAM Persistent and Concurrent B-Tree for Storage Class Memory (2016, positive): “To manage SCM , Condit et al. [11] presented BPFS , a high performance transactional ﬁle system that runs on top of SCM .”
Atlas (2014, background): “File systems, taking advantage of byte-addressable persistent memory, have been studied [15, 17].”
Page placement in hybrid memory systems (2011, background): “Nevertheless, PCM endurance is expected to i ncrease by orders of magnitude in the next few years [1, 9].”
Alpaca: intermittent execution without checkpoints (2017, background): “…in non-volatile memory, and for building consistent memory and file systems out of byte-addressable non-volatile memory [Coburn et al. 2011; Condit et al. 2009; Doshi and Varman 2012; Dulloor et al. 2014; Moraru et al. 2013; Narayanan and Hodson 2012; Venkataraman et al. 2011; Volos et al.…”
NV-Tree: Reducing Consistency Cost for NVM-based Single Level Systems (2015, methodology): “BPFS [14] proposed a new file system which is resided in NVM.”
Memory scaling: A systems architecture perspective (2013, background): “Non-volatility of main memory opens up new opportunities that can be exploited by higher levels of the system stack to improve performance and reliability/consistency [21, 16].”
An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory (2019, background): “Custom NVM ﬁle systems have also been explored [60, 62, 38, 58, 54, 13, 21, 61, 68], as have more speculative hardware architectures [35, 34, 33, 42].”
A simpler, safer programming and execution model for intermittent systems (2015, background): “Persistency and PMFS owe their heritage to BPFS [9], which addressed atomicity problems for ﬁlesystems on nonvolatile memory.”
Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory (2011, background): “Most closely related is the work on NVTM [12] and BPFS [14].”
Basic Performance Measurements of the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (2019, background): “Over the past decade, they have written a slew of papers proposing new programming models [4, 31], file systems [33, 34, 32, 30, 5, 13], libraries [2, 3, 25], and applications built to exploit the performance and flexibility that NVDIMMs promised to deliver.”
PUMA: A Programmable Ultra-efficient Memristor-based Accelerator for Machine Learning Inference (2019, background): “There have been various works centered around system support for non-volatile memory, including file systems [30], memory allocators [11, 83], programming models [16, 27, 106], durable data structures [31, 55, 113], representation of pointers [18, 28, 34, 35], and architecture support [60, 80, 82, 9”
Phase-Change Technology and the Future of Main Memory (2010, background): “For example, system boot/hibernate may be perceived and instantaneous, application checkpointing may be less expensive[9], and le systems will provide stronger safety guarantees[ 8 ].”
Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory (2015, methodology): “As a result, there are widespread interests in the research community and in the industry to consider incorporating NVM technologies to substitute or complement DRAM as the main memory in future computer systems [5, 9, 36, 15, 26, 7, 31, 8, 33, 29, 20].”
Overcoming the challenges of crossbar resistive memory architectures (2015, background): “• Main Memory as Primary Data Store: Due to the growing performance gap between main memory and storage, many emerging workloads have begun to use main memory as the primary data store.”
NOVA: A Log-structured File System for Hybrid Volatile/Non-volatile Main Memories (2016, background): “BPFS uses short-circuit shadow paging to reduce shadow paging overheads in common cases, but certain operations that span a large portion of the file system tree (e.g., a move between directories) can still incur large overheads.”