Persistent Memory Hardware

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This is a list of papers that talk about hardware support for persistent memory.

eNVy: A Non-Volatile, Main Memory Storage System (Wu, Zwaenepoel, 1994)

  • They use large flash memory to replace disk drives.
  • For backwards compatibility they use a RAM Disk.
  • Uses word size reads and writes to avoid using files and data formatting.
  • Uses battery-backed up SRAM as a FIFO Write Buffer, to avoid long latency writes, reduce number of writes to flash, and make it word writable.
  • Results are simulated.
  • Complex cleaning algorithms are used to recover used flash segments.

Memories of the future (Wickett, 2002)

  • Large non-volatile memories might be available soon.

NY Times article

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