A modern primer on processing in memory

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - … computing: from devices …, 2022 - Springer
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This
design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause …

Processing data where it makes sense: Enabling in-memory computation

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - Microprocessors and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Today's systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This design
choice goes directly against at least three key trends in systems that cause performance …

Blockhammer: Preventing rowhammer at low cost by blacklisting rapidly-accessed dram rows

AG Yağlikçi, M Patel, JS Kim, R Azizi… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from
RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating (ie, hammering) a DRAM row can …

DAMOV: A new methodology and benchmark suite for evaluating data movement bottlenecks

GF Oliveira, J Gómez-Luna, L Orosa, S Ghose… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data movement between the CPU and main memory is a first-order obstacle against improv
ing performance, scalability, and energy efficiency in modern systems. Computer systems …

Low-cost inter-linked subarrays (LISA): Enabling fast inter-subarray data movement in DRAM

KK Chang, PJ Nair, D Lee, S Ghose… - … Symposium on High …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new DRAM design that enables fast and energy-efficient bulk data
movement across subarrays in a DRAM chip. While bulk data movement is a key operation …

{MQSim}: A framework for enabling realistic studies of modern {Multi-Queue}{SSD} devices

A Tavakkol, J Gómez-Luna, M Sadrosadati… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2018 - usenix.org
Solid-state drives (SSDs) are used in a wide array of computer systems today, including in
datacenters and enterprise servers. As the I/O demands of these systems have increased …

Scheduling techniques for GPU architectures with processing-in-memory capabilities

A Pattnaik, X Tang, A Jog, O Kayiran… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Processing data in or near memory (PIM), as opposed to in conventional computational units
in a processor, can greatly alleviate the performance and energy penalties of data transfers …

The DRAM latency PUF: Quickly evaluating physical unclonable functions by exploiting the latency-reliability tradeoff in modern commodity DRAM devices

JS Kim, M Patel, H Hassan… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are commonly used in cryptography to identify
devices based on the uniqueness of their physical microstructures. DRAM-based PUFs have …

Understanding reduced-voltage operation in modern DRAM devices: Experimental characterization, analysis, and mechanisms

KK Chang, AG Yağlıkçı, S Ghose, A Agrawal… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The energy consumption of DRAM is a critical concern in modern computing systems.
Improvements in manufacturing process technology have allowed DRAM vendors to lower …

Are we susceptible to rowhammer? an end-to-end methodology for cloud providers

L Cojocar, J Kim, M Patel, L Tsai… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud providers are concerned that Rowhammer poses a potentially critical threat to their
servers, yet today they lack a systematic way to test whether the DRAM used in their servers …