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Architectural and Operating System Support for Virtual Memory - (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture) (Paperback)

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This book provides computer engineers, academic researchers, new graduate students, and seasoned practitioners an end-to-end overview of virtual memory.
About the Author: Abhishek Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University.
157 Pages
Computers, Computer Engineering
Series Name: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture

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This book provides computer engineers, academic researchers, new graduate students, and seasoned practitioners an end-to-end overview of virtual memory. We begin with a recap of foundational concepts and discuss not only state-of-the-art virtual memory hardware and software support available today, but also emerging research trends in this space. The span of topics covers processor microarchitecture, memory systems, operating system design, and memory allocation. We show how efficient virtual memory implementations hinge on careful hardware and software cooperation, and we discuss new research directions aimed at addressing emerging problems in this space.

Virtual memory is a classic computer science abstraction and one of the pillars of the computing revolution. It has long enabled hardware flexibility, software portability, and overall better security, to name just a few of its powerful benefits. Nearly all user-level programs today take for granted that they will have beenfreed from the burden of physical memory management by the hardware, the operating system, device drivers, and system libraries.

However, despite its ubiquity in systems ranging from warehouse-scale datacenters to embedded Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the overheads of virtual memory are becoming a critical performance bottleneck today. Virtual memory architectures designed for individual CPUs or even individual cores are in many cases struggling to scale up and scale out to today's systems which now increasingly include exotic hardware accelerators (such as GPUs, FPGAs, or DSPs) and emerging memory technologies (such as non-volatile memory), and which run increasingly intensive workloads (such as virtualized and/or "big data" applications). As such, many of the fundamental abstractions and implementation approaches for virtual memory are being augmented, extended, or entirely rebuilt in order to ensure that virtual memory remains viable and performant in the years to come.

About the Author

Abhishek Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. His research interests are in computer systems, particularly at the interface of hardware and software. More recently, he has also been working on designing chips for brain-machine implants and systems for large-scale brain modeling. Abhishek received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2010.Daniel Lustig is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA. Dans work generally focuses on memory system architectures, and his particular research interests lie in memory consistency models, cache coherence protocols, virtual memory, and formal verification of all of the above. Dan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton in 2015.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 7.5 Inches (W) x .38 Inches (D)

Weight: .69 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 157

Genre: Computers

Sub-Genre: Computer Engineering

Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture

Publisher: Springer

Format: Paperback

Author: Abhishek Bhattacharjee & Daniel Lustig

Language: English

Street Date: September 29, 2017

TCIN: 1013400139

UPC: 9783031006296

Item Number (DPCI): 247-61-9931

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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