Prior research indicates that there is much spatial variation in applications' memory access
patterns. Modern memory systems, however, use small fixed-size cache blocks and as such …

Microprocessors are designed to provide good average performance over a variety of
workloads. This can lead to inefficiencies both in power and performance for individual …

Energy consumption is a major concern in many embedded computing systems. Several
studies have shown that cache memories account for about 50% of the total energy …

Low power and/or energy consumption is a requirement not only in embedded systems that
run on batteries or have limited cooling capabilities, but also in desktop and mainframes …

As manycore architectures enable a large number of cores on the die, a key challenge that
emerges is the availability of memory bandwidth with conventional DRAM solutions. To …

We propose adaptive granularity to combine the best of fine-grained and coarse-grained
memory accesses. We augment virtual memory to allow each page to specify its preferred …

Recent research suggests that there are large variations in a cache's spatial usage, both
within and across programs. Unfortunately, conventional caches typically employ fixed …

Memory accesses often account for about half of a microprocessor system's power
consumption. Customizing a microprocessor cache's total size, line size, and associativity to …

The trend towards integrating multiple cores on the same die has accentuated the need for
larger on-chip caches. Such large caches are constructed as a multitude of smaller cache …

The fixed geometries of current cache designs do not adapt to the working set requirements
of modern applications, causing significant inefficiency. The short block lifetimes and …