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CAREER: Enabling Efficient AI Computing at Scale with Heterogeneous Retention-Aware Memory — NSF Award to Stanford University (CA,

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly limited not by arithmetic, but by memory. As frontier AI models become more capable, they require far more data to be moved, stored, and accessed efficiently. These workloads systematically generate large volumes of short-lived data that are written in memory

Award titleCAREER: Enabling Efficient AI Computing at Scale with Heterogeneous Retention-Aware Memory
Award ID2541050
AwardeeStanford University
CitySTANFORD
StateCA
Amount obligated$424,237
Principal investigatorThierry Tambe
ProgramSoftware & Hardware Foundation
Start date09/01/2026
AbstractModern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly limited not by arithmetic, but by memory. As frontier AI models become more capable, they require far more data to be moved, stored, and accessed efficiently. These workloads systematically generate large volumes of short-lived data that are written in memory, consumed, and quickly discarded, as well as long-lived data that must be retained reliably across much longer time scales. Conventional memory systems are poorly optimized to thi
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