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    • Another trip to the wall: how much will stacked DRAM benefit HPC? 

      Radulović, Milan; Živanovič, Darko; Ruiz, Daniel; De Supinski, Bronis; McKee, Sally; Radojković, Petar; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015)
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      First defined two decades ago, the memory wall remains a fundamental limitation to system performance. Recent innovations in 3D-stacking technology enable DRAM devices with much higher bandwidths than traditional DIMMs. ...
    • Combining RAM technologies for hard-error recovery in L1 data caches working at very-low power modes 

      Lorente, Vicente; Valero, Alejandro; Sahuquillo, Julio; Petit, Salvador; Canal Corretger, Ramon; López, Pedro; Duato, José (2013)
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      Low-power modes in modern microprocessors rely on low frequencies and low voltages to reduce the energy budget. Nevertheless, manufacturing induced parameter variations can make SRAM cells unreliable producing hard errors ...
    • Detailed tuning and validation of hardware simulators through microbenchmarks 

      Sánchez Verdejo, Rommel; Radojković, Petar (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2018-04-24)
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    • Evaluating the impact of future memory technologies in the design of multicore processors 

      López Paradís, Guillem (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-01)
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      "It’s the Memory, Stupid!" In 1996, Richard Sites, one of the fathers of Computer Architecture and lead designer of the DEC alpha, wrote a paper [36] with the title above. In that paper he realized that the only important ...
    • Impact of finfet and III-V/Ge technology on logic and memory cell behavior 

      Amat Bertran, Esteve; Calomarde Palomino, Antonio; García Almudéver, Carmen; Aymerich Capdevila, Nivard; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2013-11-20)
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      In this work, we assess the performance of a ring oscillator and a DRAM cell when they are implemented with different technologies (planar CMOS, FinFET and III-V MOSFETs), and subjected to different reliability scenarios ...
    • Mitigation strategies of the variability in 3T1D cell memories scaled beyond 22nm 

      Amat Bertran, Esteve; García Almudéver, Carmen; Aymerich Capdevila, Nivard; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2012)
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      3T1D cell has been stated as a valid alternative to be implemented on L1 memory cache to substitute 6T, highly affected by device variability. In this contribution, we have shown that 22nm 3T1D memory cells present significant ...
    • Modem gain-cell memories in advanced technologies 

      Amat Bertran, Esteve; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      With the advent of the slowdown in DRAM capacitor scaling [1] and the increased reliability problems of traditional 6T SRAM memories [2], industry and academia have looked for alternative memory cells. Among those, gain- ...
    • Optimization of FinFET-based gain cells for low power sub-vt embedded drams 

      Amat, Esteve; Calomarde Palomino, Antonio; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2018-06-01)
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      Sub-threshold circuits (sub-V T) are a promising alternative in the implementation of low power electronics. The implementation of gain-cell embedded DRAMs (eDRAMs) based on FinFET devices requires a careful design to ...
    • PMSS: a programmable memory system and scheduler for complex memory patterns 

      Hussain, Tassadaq; Haider, Amna; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2014-10)
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      HPC industry demands more computing units on FPGAs, to enhance the performance by using task/data parallelism. FPGAs can provide its ultimate performance on certain kernels by customizing the hardware for the applications. ...
    • PROFET: modeling system performance and energy without simulating the CPU 

      Radulović, Milan; Sánchez-Verdejo, Rommel; Carpenter, Paul Matthew; Radojković, Petar; Jacob, Bruce; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2019-06)
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      The approaching end of DRAM scaling and expansion of emerging memory technologies is motivating a lot of research in future memory systems. Novel memory systems are typically explored by hardware simulators that are slow ...
    • Runtime-guided ECC protection using online estimation of memory vulnerability 

      Jaulmes, Luc; Moretó Planas, Miquel; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Erez, Mattan; Casas, Marc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      Diminishing reliability of semiconductor technologies and decreasing power budgets per component hinder designing next-generation high performance computing (HPC) systems. Both constraints strongly impact memory subsystems, ...
    • StaticHMEM: static object placement methodology for heterogeneous memory systems in HPC 

      Shirvankar, Suraj (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-26)
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      Byte-addressable persistent memory (PMEM) provides memory capacities similar to storage devices,this makes them ideal combination with DRAM as memory extension.Users can either manage the allocation using software or using ...
    • Strategies to enhance the 3T1D-DRAM cell variability robustness beyond 22 nm 

      Amat Bertran, Esteve; García Almudéver, Carmen; Aymerich, N.; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2014-10-01)
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      3T1D cell has been stated as a valid alternative to be implemented on L1 memory cache to substitute 6T, highly affected by device variability as technology dimensions are reduced. In this work, we have shown that 22 nm ...
    • Technological layer 

      Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Canal Corretger, Ramon (The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020-10)
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      This chapter describes the fundamental characteristics of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology, and how it can be assessed for system reliability studies. After some definitions, the dominating ...
    • Variability impact on on-chip memory data paths 

      Amat Bertran, Esteve; Calomarde Palomino, Antonio; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (2014)
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      Process variations have a large impact on device and circuit reliability and performance. Few studies are focused on their impact on more complex systems, as for example their influence in a data path. In our study, the ...