Optimal weighted loop fusion for parallel programs
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
Data transformations for eliminating conflict misses
PLDI '98 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1998 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1999 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Computer
Optimizing Graph Algorithms for Improved Cache Performance
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Visualizing the Impact of the Cache on Program Execution
IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation
CacheIn: a toolset for comprehensive cache inspection
ICCS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
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Cache performance is regarded as a critical issue that significantly influences the overall performance of a computer system. Hence, optimization with respect to cache behavior forms an important topic in both research and commercial areas. This work aims at helping the user in the task of cache behavior analysis with a comprehensive visualization tool. The resulted cache visualizer is capable of presenting the various aspects of cache accesses, and shows the performance data in a high-level, user-readable way. More specially, it directly leads the user to the data structures where excessive cache misses occur. It then further depicts the reason of theses misses. In addition, it helps the user to decide important parameters concerning some optimization techniques, e.g. padding stride and size of cache blocks. Examples of initial optimization based on the visualizer have proven the feasibility of this visualization tool.