Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies such ...

If you reduce systems down to their bare essentials, everything exists in those systems to manipulate data in memory, and like human beings, all that really exists for any of us is what is in memory.

Non-volatile memories are not the main memory (RAM) in computers, tablets and smartphones. When only a small amount of RAM is required, non-volatile memories can actually be the main memory in remote ...

We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon ...

For decades, the goal has been to create a random access memory (RAM) that is non-volatile like flash storage but with the speed and addressability of a RAM chip. Such technology would dramatically ...

Even though a computer’s memory map looks pretty smooth and very much byte-addressable at first glance, the same memory on a hardware level is a lot more bumpy. An essential term a developer may come ...