This paper evaluates several techniques to save leakage in CMP L2 caches by selectively switching off the less used lines. We primarily focus on private snoopy L2 caches. In this c...
Matteo Monchiero, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonzá...
A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based ...
Jason Zebchuk, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Moinuddin...