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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a “pivotal technology” that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the t...
Feng Chen, David A. Koufaty, Xiaodong Zhang
ISCA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Achieving predictable performance through better memory controller placement in many-core CMPs
In the near term, Moore’s law will continue to provide an increasing number of transistors and therefore an increasing number of on-chip cores. Limited pin bandwidth prevents th...
Dennis Abts, Natalie D. Enright Jerger, John Kim, ...
USS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for several seconds after power is lost, even at room temperature and even if removed fro...
J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger,...
IPL
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
The Economics of Large-Memory Computations
We propose, and justify, an economic theory to guide memory system design, operation, and analysis. Our theory treats memory random-access latency, and its cost per installed mega...
Clark D. Thomborson
CGO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Compiler Managed Dynamic Instruction Placement in a Low-Power Code Cache
Modern embedded microprocessors use low power on-chip memories called scratch-pad memories to store frequently executed instructions and data. Unlike traditional caches, scratch-p...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Pracheeti D. Nagarkar, Ganesh ...