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Beyond Processor-centric Operating Systems
Paolo Faraboschi, Kimberly Keeton, Tim Marsland, Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
By the end of the decade, computing designs will shift from a processor-centric architecture to a memory-centric architecture. At rack scale, we can expect a large pool of non-volatile memory (NVM) that will be accessed by heterogeneous and decentralized compute resources. Such memory-centric architectures will present challenges that today’s processor-centric OSes may not be able to address. In this paper, we describe the characteristics and consequences of memory-centric architectures and propose a memory-centric OS design that moves traditional OS functionality outside of the compute node and closer to memory.
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author = {Paolo Faraboschi and Kimberly Keeton and Tim Marsland and Dejan Milojicic},
title = {Beyond Processor-centric Operating Systems},
booktitle = {15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XV)},
year = {2015},
address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/faraboschi},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}
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