Non-Volatile Memory

In recent times non-volatile Memory technologies offering low latency storage medium. The papers listed below evaluate new NVMs and provide a guide to understanding these new devices.

• Compute Express Link (CXL)

  • Cache-Coherent Accelerators for Persistent Memory Crash Consistency (HotStorage'22)
  • Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms (ASPLOS'23)

• Computational Storage Devices (CSD)

  • When F2FS Meets Compression-Based SSD!(HotStorage'23)
  • Direct Access, High-Performance Memory Disaggregation with DirectCXL (USENIX ATC'22)
  • Closing the B+-tree vs. LSM-tree Write Amplification Gap on Modern Storage Hardware with Built-in Transparent Compression (FAST'22)
  • Hardware/Software Co-Programmable Framework for Computational SSDs to Accelerate Deep Learning Service on Large-Scale Graphs(FAST'22)
  • FusionFS: Fusing I/O Operations using CISCOps in Firmware File Systems(FAST'22)
  • Understanding the Performance Characteristics of Computational Storage Drives: A Case Study with SmartSSD (MDPI'21)
  • KVRAID: high performance, write efficient, update friendly erasure coding scheme for KV-SSDs (SYSTOR'21)
  • A Fast and Flexible Hardware-based Virtualization Mechanism for Computational Storage Devices(USENIX ATC'21)
  • SmartSSD: FPGA Accelerated Near-Storage Data Analytics on SSD (IEEE Computer Architecture Letters)
  • StripeFinder: Erasure Coding of Small Objects over Key-Value Storage Devices (An Uphill Battle) (HotStorage'20)
  • CrossFS: A Cross-layered Direct-Access File System(OSDI'20)
  • PolarDB Meets Computational Storage: Efficiently Support Analytical Workloads in Cloud-Native Relational Database(FAST'20)
  • Hybrid Data Reliability for Emerging Key-Value Storage Devices (FAST'20)
  • Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud(NSDI'18)
  • Enabling cost-effective data processing with smart SSD(MSST'13)
  • DONGLE: Direct FPGA-Orchestrated NVMe Storage for HLS(FPGA'23)
  • SSD-Assisted Ransomware Detection and Data Recovery Techniques (IEEE Transactions on Computers)
  • Talk: Computational Storage - Jamon Bowen Xilinx (SDC'20)

• Evaluation of Non-Volatile Memory Systems

  • An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory (FAST '20)
  • System Evaluation of Intel Optane Byte-Addressabke NVM (MEMSYS '19)
  • Single Machine Graph Analytics on Massive Datasets Using Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (arXiv '19)
  • Basic Performance Measurements of the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (arXiv '19)

• NVM Simulators

  • Characterizing and Modeling Non-Volatile Memory Systems (MICRO '20)

• Storage Applications Modified for NVDIMM Systems

  • Finding and Fixing Performance Pathologies in Persistent Memory Software Stacks (ASPLOS'19)

• Crash-consistency & Bug detection for NVM systems

  • Jaaru: Efficiently Model Checking Persistent Memory Programs (ASPLOS'21)
  • PMFuzz: Test Case Generation for Persistent Memory Programs (ASPLOS'21)
  • Cross-Failure Bug Detection in Persistent Memory Programs (ASPLOS'20)
  • Agamotto: How Persistent is your Persistent Memory Application? (OSDI '20)
  • PMTest: A Fast and Flexible Testing Framework forPersistent Memory Programs (ASPLOS'19)

• Hybrid Memory Systems

  • FairHym: Improving Inter-Process Fairnesson Hybrid Memory Systems (NVMSA '20)
  • The Analysis of Inter-Process Interference on a Hybrid Memory System (HPCAsia '20)

• Other relevant works

  • UKSM: Swift Memory Deduplication via Hierarchical and Adaptive Memory Region Distilling (FAST '18)
  • Thermostat: Application-Transparent Page Management for Two-Tiered Main Memory (ASPLOS '17)
  • Analytic Modeling of SSD Write Performance (SYSTOR'12)

• Specifications

  • NVDIMM Namespace Specifications
  • Programming Persistent Memory