Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies such ...

Abstract: As a popular data structure for block devices like hard disks, B-tree maintains a perfectly balanced tree height to minimize the number of block accesses and optimize the performance of ...

Following are the different types of RAM and storage technologies used in electronic devices. They fall into two categories: volatile and non-volatile. Volatile chips lose their content the instant ...

As DRAM approaches scaling limits, there is significant industry investment in alternatives. An approach called persistent memory (PM) is emerging that is likely to influence enterprises in important ...

A computer that references memory on word boundaries. Word addressing applies to very early computers as the memory (RAM) in computers today addresses a single byte (see byte addressable). See word.