Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM
8 days ago
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- SRAM and DRAM have stopped scaling, making memory a dominant system cost.
- Proposes a shift to specialized memory architectures for application-specific access patterns.
- Introduces long-term RAM (LtRAM) for read-intensive data with long lifetimes.
- Introduces short-term RAM (StRAM) for transient, frequently-accessed data with short lifetimes.
- Explores underlying device technologies and integration into current system designs.
- Identifies research challenges for more efficient and scalable computing systems.