A Survey on Memory-centric Computer Architectures

Faster and cheaper computers have been constantly demanding technological and architectural improvements. However, current technology is suffering from three technology walls: leakage wall, reliability wall, and cost wall. Meanwhile, existing architecture performance is also saturating due to three...

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Published inACM journal on emerging technologies in computing systems Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 1 - 50
Main Authors Gebregiorgis, Anteneh, Du Nguyen, Hoang Anh, Yu, Jintao, Bishnoi, Rajendra, Taouil, Mottaqiallah, Catthoor, Francky, Hamdioui, Said
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY ACM 25.10.2022
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Hardware
Memory and dense storage
Spintronics and magnetic technologies
Computation-in-memory
classification
resistive computing
computer architectures
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Summary:Faster and cheaper computers have been constantly demanding technological and architectural improvements. However, current technology is suffering from three technology walls: leakage wall, reliability wall, and cost wall. Meanwhile, existing architecture performance is also saturating due to three well-known architecture walls: memory wall, power wall, and instruction-level parallelism (ILP) wall. Hence, a lot of novel technologies and architectures have been introduced and developed intensively. Our previous work has presented a comprehensive classification and broad overview of memory-centric computer architectures. In this article, we aim to discuss the most important classes of memory-centric architectures thoroughly and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, for each class, the article provides a comprehensive survey on memory-centric architectures available in the literature.
ISSN:1550-4832
1550-4840
DOI:10.1145/3544974