No dia 15 de outubro, entre as 14h30 e as 16h, vai realizar-se uma IST Distinguished Lecture com o professor James Larus (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, IC-EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suiça).
Esta palestra será subordinada ao tema “Programming Non-Volatile Memory”.
Abstract
New memory technologies are changing the computer systems landscape. Motivated by the power limitations of DRAM, new, non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies — such as ReRAM, PCM, and STT-RAM — are likely to be widely deployed in server and commodity computers in the near future. These memories erase the classical dichotomy between slow, non-volatile disks or SSDs and fast, volatile memory, greatly expanding the possible uses of durability mechanisms.
Taking advantage of non-volatility is not as simple as just writing data to NVM. Without programming support, it is challenging to write correct, efficient code that permits recovery after a power failure since the restart mechanism must find a consistent state in the durable storage. This problem is well-known in the database community, and a significant portion of a DB system is devoted to ensuring recoverability after failures. NVM differs, however, because its writes are fine-grain, low-cost, and go directly to memory, leaving little opportunity for software intervention.
Esta Distinguished Lecture é simultaneamente uma “INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture”.
Local: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro, Complexo Interdisciplinar I.
