Paper Title: Flash and Tiered Memory Systems

Paper Abstract: The lack of cost scaling of DRAM ($/GB) is making it hard to build resource-balanced servers in the cloud and the enterprise infrastructure. Leveraging flash to build a tiered memory system can be a solution to this issue as long as the performance question is understood and addressed. This presentation will discuss the performance impact of having a two-tier memory system (DRAM as cache for flash), and how AI-based data management can significantly reduce the performance impact due to the large latency differential between flash and DRAM.

Paper Author: Maher Amer, Co-Founder, Thikra Technology

Author Bio: Maher is a co-founder of Thikra Technology. He has over a decade of engineering and executive experience in the field of server memory architecture spanning ASIC, HW, and SW. Before Thikra, Maher was the CTO of Diablo Technologies where he was a key contributor to the company's flagship technology Memory Channel Storage.