Performance analysis for using non-volatile memory DIMMs
Amro Awad, Simon David Hammond, Clay Hughes, Arun F. Rodrigues, Scott Hemmert, Robert J. Hoekstra · Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems · 2017
DRAM scalability is becoming more challenging, pushing the focus of the research community towards alternative memory technologies. Many emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) devices are proving themselves to be good candidates to replace DRAM in the coming years. For example, the recently announced 3D-XPoint memory by Intel/Micron promises latencies that are comparable to DRAM, while being non-volatile and much more dense. While emerging NVMs can be fabricated in different form factors, the most promising (from a performance perspective) are NVM-based DIMMs. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of studies that explore the design options for NVM-based DIMMs.