Cache Calculus: Modeling Caches through Differential Equations

Caches are critical to performance, yet their behavior is hard to understand and model. In particular, prior work does not provide closed-form solutions of cache performance, i.e., simple expressions for the miss rate of a specific access pattern. Existing cache models instead use numerical methods...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beckmann, Nathan Zachary, Sanchez, Daniel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111031
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6057-9769