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Subject: 	CS Seminar: An Overview of Emerging New Memory Technologies 
and Their Implications for System Software
Date: 	Thu, 8 Aug 2013 09:58:56 -0400
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*CS Seminar: An Overview of Emerging New Memory Technologies and Their 
Implications for System Software*

*Tuesday, August 20 2013, 11:00 AM - noon
Room 3507, Nguyen Engineering Building

Sam Noh
School of Computer and Information Engineering, Hong-Ik University, 
South Korea*

*Abstract*
New memory technologies which have characteristics of both a storage 
device, with its non-volatilty, and conventional DRAM, with 
byte addressability, are currently being developed by all 
major semiconductor companies. In this talk, I will give an overview 
of the so-called next generation memory technology arena, briefly 
discussing the characteristics of the various next generation memory 
technologies that are in development. Then, and more importantly, I will 
discuss the system software issues that we may have to revisit with the 
advent of these new types of memory. Finally, as an example of its use, 
I will present one recent work, which we call UBJ (Unioning of 
the Buffer cache and Journaling), that provides a simple and yet elegant 
way of exploiting the non- volatile characteritic of next generation 
memory for performance and reliability enhancements.

*The paper where UBJ is proposed received the best paper award at the 
11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’13).

*Speaker's Bio*
Sam H. Noh received the BS degree in computer engineering from the Seoul 
National University, Korea in 1986, and the PhD degree from 
the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College 
Park in 1993. He held a visiting faculty position at the George 
Washington University from 1993 to 1994 before joining Hong-Ik 
University in Seoul Korea, where he is now a Professor in the School of 
Computer and Information Engineering. He has served as PC at 
various major conferences throughout the years, more recently for the 
IEEE RTCSA and the USENIX FAST. His research interests are in operating 
system issues pertaining to embedded/computer systems in general. In 
particular, his main focus of research has been on use of flash memory 
and new emerging memory technologies in systems. (Check out 
htttp://next.hongik.ac.kr 
<https://by2prd0510.outlook.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> for more 
details.)