NVM Streaker: a fast and reconfigurable performance simulator for non-volatile memory-based memory architecture

doi:10.1007/s11227-018-2438-y

	NVM Streaker: a fast and reconfigurable performance simulator for non-volatile memory-based memory architecture
	Hu, Danqi 1,2; Lv, Fang 1; Wang, Chenxi 1,2; Cui, Hui-Min 1,2; Wang, Lei 1; Liu, Ying 1; Feng, Xiao-Bing 1,2
	2018-08-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING
ISSN	0920-8542
卷号	74 期号:8 页码:3875-3903
摘要	The high density, low power consumption non-volatile memory (NVM) provides a promising DRAM alternative for the in-memory big-data processing applications, e.g., Spark, It is significant to simulate the behaviors when NVMs are deployed into the area of big-data processing before their widespread use in market. However, existing simulation approaches are not applicable for big-data processing due to two reasons. First, some approaches require complicated hardware and/or OS supports. Second, cycle-level or function-level simulations are too time-consuming to simulate the whole software stack of big-data processing. Therefore, the complexity and expensive time cost in NVM simulation have dramatically dragged down the integrated research of big data with NVM. This paper proposes a fast and reconfigurable simulation method, called NVM Streaker, which does not need complex hardware or OS supports. It simulates NVM access costs using disturbed DRAM accesses and commonly configurable hardware parameters. It is fast since we use DRAM accesses and change its access costs to simulate NVM access costs, thus enabling to simulate the whole software stack to run Spark applications. It is reconfigurable since we enable users to configure the disturbed memory access costs, in order to simulate different NVM access costs. The experimental results show that we can simulate Spark applications with almost negligible cost and high efficiency.
关键词	NVM Reconfigurable Fast simulation Big data
DOI	10.1007/s11227-018-2438-y
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key R&D Program of China[2016YFB1000402] ; National Key R&D Program of China[2016YFB1000200] ; National Key R&D Program of China[2016YFB0200504] ; NSFC[61521092] ; NSFC[61672492] ; NSFC[61303053] ; NSFC[61432016] ; NSFC[61402445]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000441875100024
出版者	SPRINGER
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/5057
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Lv, Fang
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hu, Danqi,Lv, Fang,Wang, Chenxi,et al. NVM Streaker: a fast and reconfigurable performance simulator for non-volatile memory-based memory architecture[J]. JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING,2018,74(8):3875-3903.
APA	Hu, Danqi.,Lv, Fang.,Wang, Chenxi.,Cui, Hui-Min.,Wang, Lei.,...&Feng, Xiao-Bing.(2018).NVM Streaker: a fast and reconfigurable performance simulator for non-volatile memory-based memory architecture.JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING,74(8),3875-3903.
MLA	Hu, Danqi,et al."NVM Streaker: a fast and reconfigurable performance simulator for non-volatile memory-based memory architecture".JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING 74.8(2018):3875-3903.