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Next Generation Virtual Memory Management

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The goal of virtual memory is an abstraction of infinite and private memory for every process. Unfortunately, the insatiable memory demands of modern applications increasingly violate this abstraction by exposing capacity, bandwidth, and performance limitations of modern hardware. Furthermore, emerging memory technologies are likely to exacerbate this problem. For instance, non-volatile memory differs from DRAM due to its asymmetric read/write performance and thus will likely be an addition rather than a drop-in replacement for DRAM. This talk will describe these problems and recent architecture and software innovations that address of some of them. If adopted, these solutions will impose substantial challenges for operating system memory management, which has evolved very slowly over the past 30 years. I will draw lessons from the past 15 years of garbage collection advances to suggest some promising directions for innovation.

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      cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
      ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 51, Issue 7
      VEE '16
      July 2016
      167 pages
      ISSN:0362-1340
      EISSN:1558-1160
      DOI:10.1145/3007611
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      • cover image ACM Conferences
        VEE '16: Proceedings of the12th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
        March 2016
        186 pages
        ISBN:9781450339476
        DOI:10.1145/2892242

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      Association for Computing Machinery

      New York, NY, United States

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