Non-volatile memory (NVM) devices, such as Flash, phase change RAM, spin transfer
torque RAM, and resistive RAM, offer several advantages and challenges when compared …

The next generation of supercomputers will break the exascale barrier. Soon we will have
systems capable of at least one quintillion (billion billion) floating-point operations per …

Applications running on leadership platforms are more and more bottlenecked by storage
input/output (I/O). In an effort to combat the increasing disparity between I/O throughput and …

Scalable server-grade non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) DIMMs became commercially available
with the release of Intel's Optane DIMM. Recent studies on Optane DIMM systems unveil …

Many tools and techniques have been developed to address specific aspects of interacting
in a virtual world. Few have been designed with an architecture that allows large numbers of …

Modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are adding extra layers to the memory
and storage hierarchy named deep memory and storage hierarchy (DMSH), to increase I/O …

Rapid checkpointing will remain key functionality for next generation high end machines.
This paper explores the use of node-local nonvolatile memories (NVM) such as phase …

In view of the growing presence and popularity of multicore and manycore processors,
accelerators, and coprocessors, as well as clusters using such computing devices, the …

Checkpoint/Restart is an indispensable fault tolerance technique commonly used by high-
performance computing applications that run continuously for hours or days at a time …

Modern HPC systems employ burst buffer installations to reduce the peak I/O requirements
for external storage and deal with the burstiness of I/O in modern scientific applications …