Active memory: A new abstraction for memory-system simulation

Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 1995/PERFORMANCE 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 220-230

  Lebeck, Alvin R ^a   Wood, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; SIMULATORS; TABLE LOOKUP;

CACHE HITS; DATA CACHES; LOOKUPS; MEMORY BLOCKS; MEMORY REFERENCES; MEMORY SYSTEMS; ON THE FLIES;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 84937495129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/223587.223611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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