IIT Guwahati researchers make breakthrough in computer memory architecture

Researchers from IIT Guwahati have developed methods to evenly distribute accesses across computer systems’ overall memory capacity to reduce the wear-out pressure on heavily-written locations.

The researchers have made fundamental contributions to memory architectures by preventing redundancy in data values and improving slow and frequent writes in the multi-core processor systems, an IIT Guwahati press release said on Monday.

“When the world is rapidly moving towards research in applied areas, IIT Guwahati researchers have developed methods to solve the problems in computer systems domain. Specific contributions being in multi-core processor-based systems that need an equally large on-chip memory to commensurate the data demands of the ever-growing applications and hence preventing energy consumption to ensure the temperature remains under the thermal design power budget,” it said.