Arun Viswanathan, Nancy Feldman, et al.
IEEE Communications Magazine
A novel memory subsystem called Memory Expansion Technology (MXT) has been built for fast hardware compression of main-memory content. This allows a memory expansion to present a "real" memory larger than the physically available memory. This paper provides an overview of the memory-compression architecture, its OS support under Linux and Windows®, and an analysis of the performance impact of memory compression. Results show that the hardware compression of main memory has a negligible penalty compared to an uncompressed main memory, and for memory-starved applications it increases performance significantly. We also show that the memory content of an application can usually be compressed by a factor of 2.
Arun Viswanathan, Nancy Feldman, et al.
IEEE Communications Magazine
Chidanand Apté, Fred Damerau, et al.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Eric Price, David P. Woodruff
FOCS 2011
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Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science