The NVMW Persistent Impact Prize is awarded annually to a paper published at least five years prior that has had exceptional impact on the fields of study related to non-volatile memories. The award committee interprets both “impact” and “non-volatile memories” broadly. To be eligible, work must have appeared in major, peer-reviewed, archival conference of journal (i.e., appeared in an official proceedings or journal publication). For conference papers, the date of the conference will be used to determine eligibility. For journals, we will use publication date. There is no requirement for the work to have been presented at the NVMW. The award includes a $1000 cash prize.

Anyone may nominate any paper (including self-nominations). Nominations must include a one page nominating statement that includes:

  1. The name of the nominated paper.
  2. A citation of the nominated paper (i.e., a bibliography entry).
  3. A summary of the paper’s contributions and its impact since publication.  If the paper has had impact beyond conventional metrics (e.g., citation count), be sure to highlight it.
  4. A suggested “citation statement” (e.g., “This paper laid the foundation of widget design theory and paved the way for…”) for the award.
  5. The nominating statement should not include the nominator’s name.

Awarding of the prize is contingent upon one of the authors attending the NVMW 2018 to accept it.

Nominations are due December 1st, 2018 December 6th, 2018 at midnight AoE.

2019 Winner

Scalable High-Performance Main Memory System Using Phase-Change Memory Technology

Moinuddin K. Qureshi, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, and Jude A. Rivers

ISCA 2009

Award Citation

“Scalable high-performance main memory system using phase-change memory technology” is awarded the 2019 Persistent Impact Prize in recognition of its contribution to hybrid memory systems that combine phase change memory and DRAM.  It was one of the very first papers to propose such a system and describe how careful design can overcome the limitations of both technologies to build scalable, fast, reliable memory systems.  It is especially exciting to see how the paper anticipated and influenced the structure of many subsequent proposals for hybrid memory systems.

2018 Winner

Mnemosyne: Lightweight Persistent Memory

Haris Volos and Mike Swift

ASPLOS 2011

Award Citation

Mnemosyne is awarded the 2018 Persistent Impact Prize in recognition of its contributions to the foundations of programming with non-volatile main memory.   It was among the first to identify the need to address persistent memory as part of the programming model; propose lightweight transactions to support persistence; and handle consistency under failure.  The problems it described and the solutions it proposed have influenced the design of most (if not all) of persistent main memory systems that followed it.

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