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Initial experience with 3D XPoint main memory

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3D XPoint is the first commercially available main memory NVM solution targeting mainstream computer systems. Previous database studies on NVM memory evaluate their proposed techniques mainly on simulated or emulated NVM hardware. In this paper, we report our initial experience experimenting with the real 3D XPoint main memory hardware.

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  1. An alternative NVDIMM mode is memory. In the memory mode, the entire main memory consists of the 3D XPoint memory. The DRAM is used as a cache for the 3D XPoint memory. Applications cannot access the DRAM directly, and there is no way to achieve persistence in main memory.

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Shimin Chen is the corresponding author. This work is partially supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFB1003303), NSFC Project No. 61572468, by Alibaba Collaboration Project No. XT622018000648, and by K. C. Wong Education Foundation.

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Liu, J., Chen, S. Initial experience with 3D XPoint main memory. Distrib Parallel Databases 38, 865–880 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-019-07277-8

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