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Hamish Nicholson

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Open access Sep 2026

Cracks in the Memory Wall: Data Systems On Disaggregated Memory

The growing disparity between processor core scaling and memory bandwidth has exposed the physical and economic limits of processor-centric database architectures. While Compute Express Link (CXL) and other emerging technologies enable a necessary shift toward memory-centric, disaggregated topologies, it also introdu...

Yi Jiang, Hamish Nicholson, Anastasia Ailamaki · 0 citations

The Free Lunch Has a Queue: Characterizing On-chip Compression Accelerators for Analytics

It is found that hardware offload is not a universal replacement for CPU compression, and compression should be scheduled dynamically: route blocks by codec, operation, size, and accelerator load; cap per-device sub-mission concurrency; and fall back to software when offload is unsupported or saturated.

Yi Jiang, Antonio Boffa, Hamish Nicholson et al. · 0 citations

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