On Embracing Emerging Technologies in Memory and Storage Systems: A Journey of Hardware-Software Co-design

Speaker:
Prof. YANG Ming-Chang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract:
In light of technological advancement over the last few decades, there have been many revolutionary developments in memory and storage technologies. Nevertheless, though these emerging technologies offer us new design choices and trade-offs, deploying them in modern memory and storage systems is non-trivial and challenging. In this talk, I will first summarize our efforts in embracing the cutting-edge technologies in memory and storage systems through co-designing the hardware and software. To make a case, I will present two of our recent studies: one in delivering a scalable, efficient and predictable hashing on the persistent memory (PM) technology and the other in constructing a cost-effective yet high-throughput persistent key-value store on the latest hard disk technology called interlaced magnetic recording (IMR). Finally, I will highlight some new promising memory/storage technologies that may pave new paths for and even completely revolutionize the upcoming computer systems.

Biography:
Ming-Chang Yang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his B.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science at National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 2010. He received his Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He now serves as an Associate Editor in ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS). Also, he served as a TPC co-chair for NVMSA 2021 and as a TPC member for several major conferences. In addition, he received 2 best paper awards from the prestigious conferences in his field (including ACM/IEEE ISLPED 2020 and IEEE NVMSA 2019). His primary research interests include the emerging non-volatile memory and storage technologies, memory and storage systems, and the next-generation memory/storage architecture designs. For details, please refer to his personal homepage: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~mcyang/

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