Active Pages: A Computation Model for Intelligent Memory

Microprocessors and memory systems su er from a growing gap in performance. We introduce Active Pages, a computation model which addresses this gap by shifting data-intensive computations to the memory system. An Active Page consists of a page of data and a set of associated functions which can operate upon that data. We describe an implementationof Active Pages on RADram (Recon gurable Architecture DRAM), a memory system based upon the integration of DRAM and recon gurable logic. Results from the SimpleScalar simulator BA97] demonstrate up to 1000X speedups on several applications using the RADram system versus conventional memory systems. We also explore the sensitivity of our results to implementations in other memory technologies.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ISCA
• Authors: Mark Oskin, Frederic T. Chong, Timothy Sherwood
• Keywords: Active Pages, Hardware, ISCA 1998, Memory Systems, Systems Su Er