Modern consumer laptops, tablets, and smartphones have on the order of a six-layer memory hierarchy, and managing memory smartly has never been as important to computer science as it is today.

The memory and storage hierarchy is a useful way of thinking about computer systems, and the dizzying array of memory options available to the system designer. Many different parameters characterize ...

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 3. Memory technology and optimizations, which examined innovations in main memory that offer improved system performance This installment, which examines architecture ...

The version of Computer Memory Hierarchy illustrated here represents different levels of performance among various memory technologies that can be found in standard desktop computers.

In the conventional computer memory hierarchy, NAND flash is located the furthest away from the central processing unit (CPU), and is known to be relatively cheap, slow, and dense compared to static ...

The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, ...

Racetrack Memory Will Make Your Computer Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger Meet the data storage technique of the near future.

The QoS-aware memory hierarchy So the idea behind a QoS-aware memory hierarchy is relatively straightforward (though I have oversimplified a bit here). But the devil, as always, is in the details.

Patrick Viry writes that the Ateji PX approach to GPU programming makes it easy to map the GPU memory hierarchy, which is essential for achieving good performance on GPUs or any hardware with ...

Memory Hierarchy Shakeup Gaps in the memory hierarchy have created openings for new types of memory, and there is no shortage of possibilities.