Identifying opportunities for byte-addressable non-volatile memory in extreme-scale scientific applications

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 945-956

  Li, Dong ^a   Vetter, Jeffrey S ^a   Marin, Gabriel ^a   McCurdy, Collin ^a   Cira, Cristian ^b   Liu, Zhuo ^b   Yu, Weikuan ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY INSTRUMENTATIONS; GLOBAL DATA; HARDWARE SIMULATION; LOW POWER; MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS; MEMORY SYSTEMS; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER SAVINGS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; STANDBY MODE; SYSTEM LEVELS; WORKING SET; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 84866852432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2012.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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