This paper studies the impact of L2 cache sharing on threads that simultaneously share the
cache, on a chip multi-processor (CMP) architecture. Cache sharing impacts threads …

Cache behavior modeling is an important part of modern optimizing compilers. In this paper
we present a method to estimate the number of cache misses, at compile time, using a …

Caches have become increasingly important with the widening gap between main memory
and processor speeds. However, they are a source of unpredictability due to their …

Real-time systems are reactive computer systems that must produce their reaction to a
stimulus within given time bounds. A vital verification requirement is to estimate the Worst …

Performance tools based on hardware counters can efficiently profile the cache behavior of
an application and help software developers improve its cache utilization. Simulator-based …

One of the new extensions in EPIC architectures are cache hints. On each memory
instruction, two kinds of hints can be attached: a source cache hint and a target cache hint …

Optimizing compilers implement program transformation strategies aimed at reducing data
movement to or from main memory by exploiting the data-cache hierarchy. However, instead …

Emerging Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) have promising advantages (eg, lower idle power,
higher density, and non-volatility) over the existing predominant main memory technology …

While the cost of computation is an easy to understand local property, the cost of data
movement on cached architectures depends on global state, does not compose, and is hard …

While caches have become invaluable for higher-end architectures due to their ability to
hide, in part, the gap between processor speed and memory access times, caches (and …