NVMCached: An NVM-based Key-Value Cache
NVMCached: An NVM-based Key-Value Cache Xingbo Wu, Fan Ni, Li Zhang, Yandong Wang, Yufei Ren, Michel Hack, Zili Shao, and Song Jiang, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, 2016. This is a short (6 page) paper that discusses the challenges of taking a memory based key-value cache (e.g., memcached) and converting […]
The Future of Synchronization on Multicores: The Mulitcore Transformation
The Future of Synchronization on Multicores: The Multicore Transformation Maurice Herlihy in Ubiquity, September 2014. I’m going to round out the week with a much lighter read. Despite this, it has some useful observations that underlie some of the other papers that I’ve been discussing. The editor’s introduction to this piece really does a good job […]
Exploiting Hardware Transactional Memory in Main-Memory Databases
Exploiting Hardware Transactional Memory in Main-Memory Databases Viktor Leis, Alfons Kemper, Thomas Neumann in 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, pp 580-591. I have not spent much time discussing transactional memory previously, though I have touched upon it in prior work. By the time this paper was presented, transactional memory had been fairly well explored […]
SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store
SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store Hyeontaek Lim, Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, in Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’11), October 23-26, 2011, Cascais, Portugal. In this paper, we have an interesting hybrid key-value store; part of the store is in DRAM, while the rest of it is stored […]
Logic and Lattices for Distributed Programming
Logic and Lattices for Distributed Programming Neil Conway, William R. Marczak, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and David Maier, in Symposium on Cloud Computing 2012 (SOCC ’12), October 14-17, 2012, San Jose, CA. This is definitely a different direction than we’ve had in prior papers, though I do have an ulterior motive in presenting this particular […]
Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage
Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage Yandong Mao, Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM european conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys ’12), pp. 183-196, Bern, Switzerland, April 10 – 13, 2012. In this work, the authors build a key-value system called MassTree. This is an in-memory Key-Value store (I will look at several of them, […]
MRAMFS: A compressing file system for non-volatile RAM
MRAMFS: A compressing file system for non-volatile RAM Nathan K. Edel, Deepa Tuteja, Ethan L. Miller, and Scott A. Brandt in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, Netherlands, October 2004. This paper allows me to provide both a file systems paper and look at […]
Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory Shivaram Venkataraman, Niraj Tolia, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Roy H. Campbell in Proceedings of File Systems and Storage Technology 2011, Volume 11, pp 61-75, USENIX. In this paper the authors turn their attention to data structure considerations for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM). Unlike the previous papers I have covered (Mnemosyne and […]
NV-Heaps: Making Persistent Objects Fast and Safe with Next-Generation, Non-Volatile Memories
NV-Heaps: Making Persistent Objects Fast and Safe with Next-Generation, Non-Volatile Memories Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laura M. Grupp, Rajesh K. Gupta, Ranjit Jhala, Steven Swanson in ASPLOS XVI Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems, Pages 105-118, March 5-11, 2011. This paper was presented at the […]
Mnemosyne: Lightweight Persistent Memory
Mnemosyne: Lightweight Persistent Memory Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Michael M. Swift, ASPLOS ’11 March 5-11, 2011. The abstract starts us off in this brave new world: New storage-class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phase-change memory, STT-RAM, and memristors, promise user-levelvaccess to non-volatile storage through regular memory instructions. These memory devices enable fast user-mode access to […]
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