On the role of NVRAM in data-intensive architectures: An evaluation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 703-714

  Van Essen, Brian ^a   Pearce, Roger ^a,b   Ames, Sasha ^a   Gokhale, Maya ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

data intensive; memory architecture; NVRAM

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXECUTION; BREADTH-FIRST SEARCH; DATA-INTENSIVE; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; DEVICE DRIVER; FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; GRAPH TRAVERSALS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MAIN MEMORY; MEMORY FOOTPRINT; NON-VOLATILE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; NVRAM; PERFORMANCE LOSS; PROGRAM STATE; RUNTIMES; STORAGE TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WORKING SET;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SIMULATORS; TECHNOLOGY;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84866885060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2012.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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