Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Virtualized environments in cloud can have superlinear speedup
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Stream arbitration: Towards efficient bandwidth utilization for emerging on-chip interconnects
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) - Special Issue on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers
A survey on cache tuning from a power/energy perspective
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Jigsaw: scalable software-defined caches
PACT '13 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques
Towards efficient dynamic LLC home bank mapping with noc-level support
Euro-Par'13 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Parallel Processing
Locality-oblivious cache organization leveraging single-cycle multi-hop NoCs
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
An effectiveness-based adaptive cache replacement policy
Microprocessors & Microsystems
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The number of cores in a single chip multiprocessor is expected to grow in coming years. Likewise, aggregate on-chip cache capacity is increasing fast and its effective utilization is becoming ever more important. Furthermore, available cores are expected to be underutilized due to the power wall and highly heterogeneous future workloads. This trend makes existing L2 cache management techniques less effective for two problems: increased capacity interference between working cores and longer L2 access latency. We propose a novel scalable cache management framework called CloudCache that creates dynamically expanding and shrinking L2 caches for working threads with fine-grained hardware monitoring and control. The key architectural components of CloudCache are L2 cache chaining, inter- and intra-bank cache partitioning, and a performance-optimized coherence protocol. Our extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates that CloudCache significantly improves performance of a wide range of workloads when all or a subset of cores are occupied.