APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-LEVEL MEMORY HIERARCHY

• Main Authors: KUMAR, MOHAN, J, ZIAKAS, DIMITRIOS, RAMANUJAN, RAJ, K, ZIMMERMAN, DAVID, J, CHENG, KAI, POLEPEDDI, TAARINYA, SWAMINATHAN, MUTHUKUMAR, P, AGARWAL, RAJAT, RAAD, CAMILLE, C
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 04.04.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES

A system and method are described for integrating a memory and storage hierarchy including a non-volatile memory tier within a computer system. In one embodiment, PCMS memory devices are used as one tier in the hierarchy, sometimes referred to as "far memory." Higher performance memory dev...