Memory coherence activity prediction in commercial workloads

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 68, Issue , 2004, Pages 37-45

  Somogyi, Stephen ^a   Wenisch, Thomas F ^a   Hardavellas, Nikolaos ^a   Kim, Jangwoo ^a   Ailamaki, Anastassia ^a   Falsafi, Babak ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coherence misses; coherence prediction; commercial workloads; sharing patterns; trace based prediction

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE MISS; COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; COMMERCIAL WORKLOAD; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS; MEMORY COHERENCE; MEMORY-SHARING; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SHARED CACHE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77954446302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1054943.1054949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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