The paper “An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory” by Jian Yang (UC San Diego), Juno Kim (UC San Diego), Morteza Hoseinzadeh (UC San Diego), Joseph Izraelevitz (CU Boulder) and Steve Swanson (UC San Diego) has been accepted to the 2020 USENIX Conf. on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’20). The paper describes practical guidelines for gaining optimal performance from Intel’s new Optane Persistent Memory.