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+Argonne's Memory Library
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+
+This is a prototype library to manage the hierarchical memory present in recent
+and future HPC systems, including NVM and stacked memory.
+
+This library defines "memory nodes" as hardware locations where data can
+reside. Not all of those memory nodes can provide virtual memory access to the
+data they contain, and as such, allocations are identified only by a UID.
+Memory nodes are defined by a public data structure that also contains
+information on the granularity of data accesses to a node.
+
+The library then provides functions to "pull" data into a virtual memory
+location. That memory location should be seen as temporary: the user should ask
+the library to "push" out the data afterwards.