<p style="margin–bottom: 0cm">The memory system has become extremely important recently: memory is slow, and this is the primary reason that computers don’t run significantly faster than they do. In large–scale computer installations such as the building–sized systems powering Google.com, Amazon.com, and the financial sector, memory is often the largest dollar cost as well as the largest consumer of energy. Consequently, improvements in the memory system can have significant impact on the real world, improving power and energy, performance, and/or dollar cost.<br>Moreover, many of the problems we see in the memory system are cross–disciplinary in nature—their solution would likely require work at all levels, from applications to circuits. Thus, while the scope of the problem is memory, the scope of the solutions will be much wider.<br>Areas of Interest<br>Previously unpublished papers containing significant novel ideas and technical results are solicited. Papers that focus on architecture level concepts, outside of traditional conference scopes, will be preferred over others (e.g., the desired focus is away from pipeline design, processor cache design, prefetching, data prediction, etc.). Symposium topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:<br>– Memory system design<br>– Memory controller design<br>– Operating system design for hybrid memories<br>– Memory technology, including flash, DRAM, PCM, STT–RAM, etc.<br>– Data–movement issues and mitigation techniques<br>– Interconnects to support large–scale data movement<br>– Software techniques for distributed memories<br>– Memory–focused power & energy optimizations<br>– Novel system architectures<br>– Near–memory computing<br>– Memory–centric programming models<br>– Memory failure modes<br>– Memory and system security<br></p><p style="margin–bottom: 0cm"><br></p>
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