A Difference World: High-performance, NVM-invariant, Software-only Intermittent Computation

Explore a conference talk that delves into Camel, a groundbreaking approach to intermittent computation for energy harvesting devices. Learn how this innovative system enables long-life, high-performance computation on Flash-based devices without specialized hardware support. Discover the key concept of bifurcating program state into volatile and non-volatile "worlds," allowing for efficient task-based programming and improved performance. Understand how Camel outperforms existing checkpointing systems for Flash devices by up to 5x and offers 2x performance improvement on FRAM platforms. Gain insights into the challenges of intermittent computation and how Camel's design addresses the limitations of Flash-based devices in supporting software-only intermittent computation.