Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin İpek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee · 2009
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies such as phase change memory (PCM) offer fast, fine-grained access to persistent storage.