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Xia F, Jiang DJ, Xiong J A survey of phase change memory systems. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 30(1): 121–144 Jan. 2015. DOI 10.1007/s11390-015-1509-2 Fei Xia (夏 飞), , De-Jun Jiang (蒋德钧), Jin Xiong (熊 劲), , and Ning-Hui Sun (孙凝晖), E-mail: xiafei2011, jiangdejun, xiongjin, snh@ Received April 17, 2014; revised September 17, 2014. As the scaling of applications increases, the demand of main memory capacity increases in order to serve large working set. It is difficult for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) based memory system to satisfy the memory capacity requirement due to its limited scalability and high energy consumption. Compared to DRAM, PCM (phase change memory) has better scalability, lower energy leakage, and non-volatility. PCM memory systems have become a hot topic of academic and industrial research. However, PCM technology has the following three drawbacks: long write latency, limited write endurance, and high write energy, which raises challenges to its adoption in practice. This paper surveys architectural research work to optimize PCM memory systems. First, this paper introduces the background of PCM. Then, it surveys research efforts on PCM memory systems in performance optimization, lifetime improving, and energy saving in detail, respectively. This paper also compares and summarizes these techniques from multiple dimensions. Finally, it concludes these optimization techniques and discusses possible research directions of PCM memory systems in future. phase change memory, memory system, performance, lifetime, energy ory system consumes 20% to 40% energy of the total server energy- .