Molecular Caches: A caching structure for dynamic creation of application-specific Heterogeneous cache regions

CMPs enable simultaneous execution of multiple applications on the same platforms that share cache resources. Diversity in the cache access patterns of these simultaneously executing applications can potentially trigger inter-application interference, leading to cache pollution. Whereas a large cache can ameliorate this problem, the issues of larger power consumption with increasing cache size, amplified at sub-100nm technologies, makes this solution prohibitive. In this paper, in order to address the issues relating to power-aware performance of caches, we propose a

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: MICRO
• Authors: Keshavan Varadarajan, S. K. Nandy, Vishal Sharda, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Ravi R. Iyer, Srihari Makineni, Donald Newell
• Keywords: Cache, Cache Access Patterns, Cache Resources, Hardware, MICRO 2006