Performance and Energy Benefits of MRDIMMs

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Autori principali: Díaz, Pau, Carmin, Mariana, Esmaili-Dokht, Pouya, Xirau, Victor, Zacarias, Felippe, Potter, Henrique, Servat, Harald, Moreto, Miquel, Ayguadé, Eduard, Radojković, Petar
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author Díaz, Pau
Carmin, Mariana
Esmaili-Dokht, Pouya
Xirau, Victor
Zacarias, Felippe
Potter, Henrique
Servat, Harald
Moreto, Miquel
Ayguadé, Eduard
Radojković, Petar
author_facet Díaz, Pau
Carmin, Mariana
Esmaili-Dokht, Pouya
Xirau, Victor
Zacarias, Felippe
Potter, Henrique
Servat, Harald
Moreto, Miquel
Ayguadé, Eduard
Radojković, Petar
contents Multiplexed Rank DIMMs (MRDIMMs) have recently emerged as memory devices that enable higher bandwidth without increasing DRAM chip frequencies. This paper presents a detailed performance, power and energy evaluation of a production server with high-end MRDIMM main memory. The memory system upgrade from conventional registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) to MRDIMMs extends the bandwidth by 41% yielding 27-41% higher performance for bandwidth-bound workloads. Additionally, the latency improvement reaches hundreds of nanoseconds, benefiting a broad class of workloads sensitive to memory latency. At the same bandwidth utilization levels, RDIMMs and MRDIMMs exhibit similar power consumption. In the MRDIMM-extended bandwidth region, the performance improvements largely exceed the power increase, delivering up to 30% server energy savings for memory-bound workloads.
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spellingShingle Performance and Energy Benefits of MRDIMMs
Díaz, Pau
Carmin, Mariana
Esmaili-Dokht, Pouya
Xirau, Victor
Zacarias, Felippe
Potter, Henrique
Servat, Harald
Moreto, Miquel
Ayguadé, Eduard
Radojković, Petar
Hardware Architecture
Multiplexed Rank DIMMs (MRDIMMs) have recently emerged as memory devices that enable higher bandwidth without increasing DRAM chip frequencies. This paper presents a detailed performance, power and energy evaluation of a production server with high-end MRDIMM main memory. The memory system upgrade from conventional registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) to MRDIMMs extends the bandwidth by 41% yielding 27-41% higher performance for bandwidth-bound workloads. Additionally, the latency improvement reaches hundreds of nanoseconds, benefiting a broad class of workloads sensitive to memory latency. At the same bandwidth utilization levels, RDIMMs and MRDIMMs exhibit similar power consumption. In the MRDIMM-extended bandwidth region, the performance improvements largely exceed the power increase, delivering up to 30% server energy savings for memory-bound workloads.
title Performance and Energy Benefits of MRDIMMs
topic Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02371