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A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory

@article{Mutlu2020AMP,
  title={A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory},
  author={Onur Mutlu and Saugata Ghose and Juan G'omez-Luna and Rachata Ausavarungnirun},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2012.03112}
}
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause performance, scalability and energy bottlenecks: (1) data access is a key bottleneck as many important applications are increasingly data-intensive, and memory bandwidth and energy do not scale well, (2) energy consumption is a key limiter in almost all computing platforms, especially server and mobile systems, (3) data… 
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