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Record W2116394526 · doi:10.1145/2541228.2555307

WADE

2013· article· en· W2116394526 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Canadian institutionsAdvanced Micro Devices (Canada)
FundersDivision of Computing and Communication FoundationsNational Science Foundation
KeywordsComputer scienceCacheCache-only memory architectureEmbedded systemDramStatic random-access memoryOverhead (engineering)Non-volatile memoryCache pollutionCPU cacheLatency (audio)Operating systemMicroprocessorParallel computingCache coloringCache algorithmsComputer hardwareTelecommunications

Abstract

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Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies are explored as potential alternatives to traditional SRAM/DRAM-based memory architecture in future microprocessor design. One of the major disadvantages for NVM is the latency and energy overhead associated with write operations. Mitigation techniques to minimize the write overhead for NVM-based main memory architecture have been studied extensively. However, most prior work focuses on optimization techniques for NVM-based main memory itself, with little attention paid to cache management policies for the Last-Level Cache (LLC). In this article, we propose a Writeback-Aware Dynamic CachE (WADE) management technique to help mitigate the write overhead in NVM-based memory.<sup;>1</sup;> The proposal is based on the observation that, when dirty cache blocks are evicted from the LLC and written into NVM-based memory (with PCM as an example), the long latency and high energy associated with write operations to NVM-based memory can cause system performance/power degradation. Thus, reducing the number of writeback requests from the LLC is critical. The proposed WADE cache management technique tries to keep highly reused dirty cache blocks in the LLC. The technique predicts blocks that are frequently written back in the LLC. The LLC sets are dynamically partitioned into a frequent writeback list and a nonfrequent writeback list. It keeps a best size of each list in the LLC. Our evaluation shows that the technique can reduce the number of writeback requests by 16.5% for memory-intensive single-threaded benchmarks and 10.8% for multicore workloads. It yields a geometric mean speedup of 5.1% for single-thread applications and 7.6% for multicore workloads. Due to the reduced number of writeback requests to main memory, the technique reduces the energy consumption by 8.1% for single-thread applications and 7.6% for multicore workloads.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.172
Threshold uncertainty score0.510

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it