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Multilevel-cell phase-change memory : modeling and reliability framework

In the modern digital era of big data applications, there is an ever-increasing demand for higher memory capacity that is both reliable and cost effective. In the domain of non-volatile memory systems, Flash-based storage devices have dominated the consume ...

EPFL2016

Online Updates on Data Warehouses via Judicious Use of Solid-State Storage

Anastasia Ailamaki, Radu Ioan Stoica, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis

Data warehouses have been traditionally optimized for read-only query performance, allowing only offline updates at night, essentially trading off data freshness for performance. The need for 24x7 operations in global markets and the rise of online and oth ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

PCM for Neuromorphic Applications: Impact of Device Characteristics on Neural Network Performance

Yusuf Leblebici, Irem Boybat Kara, Severin Sidler

The impact of Phase Change Memory (PCM) as well as other Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) device characteristics on the quantitative classification performance of artificial neural networks is studied. Our results show that any NVM-based neural network — not just ...

2015

Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data Files

Ioannis Alagiannis

Nowadays, business and scientific applications accumulate data at an increasing pace. This growth of information has already started to outgrow the capabilities of database management systems (DBMS). In a typical DBMS usage scenario, the user should define ...

EPFL2015

Flash-aware Database Transactions

Radu Ioan Stoica

Over the past 40 years, hard disks, the traditional building block of storage systems, have become increasingly slower when compared to the other system components such as the main memory and the CPU. Hard disks face mechanical constraints that cause their ...

EPFL2014

BF-Tree: Approximate Tree Indexing

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis

The increasing volume of time-based generated data and the shift in storage technologies suggest that we might need to reconsider indexing. Several workloads - like social and service monitoring - often include attributes with implicit clustering because o ...

2014

Re-writing scheme for solid-state storage devices

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, Luoming Zhang

A multi-level cell flash memory storage device has cells wherein different charge levels represent different information. The storage device can read stored charge from one or more cells, store a rewrite generation value for a group of a plurality of cells ...

2014

Solid-State Storage and Work Sharing for Efficient Scaleup Data Analytics

Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis

Today, managing, storing and analyzing data continuously in order to gain additional insight is becoming commonplace. Data analytics engines have been traditionally optimized for read-only queries assuming that the main data reside on mechanical disks. The ...

EPFL2014