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HAML-SSD: A Hardware Accelerated Hotness-Aware Machine Learning based SSD Management
- Award ID(s):
- 1854737
- PAR ID:
- 10183931
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 8
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD45719.2019.8942140
