Name
Abstract | ||
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Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional mem- ory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through configurable physical address remapping. By remapping physical addresses, applications control how their data is accessed and cached, improving their cache and bus utilization. Second, Impulse supports prefetching at the memory controller, which can hide much of the latency of DRAM accesses. Because it requires no modification to processor, cache, or bus designs, Impulse can be adopted in conventional systems. In this paper we describe the design of the Impulse architecture, and show how an Impulse memory system can improve the performance of memory-bound scientific applications. For instance, Impulse de- creases the running time of the NAS conjugate gradient benchmark by 67%. We expect that Impulse will also benefit regularly strided, memory-bound applications of commercial importance, such as database and multimedia programs. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1999 | 10.1155/1999/209416 | Scientific Programming |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Impulse memory system,memory system support,bus design,configurable physical address remapping,Impulse architecture,scientific application,memory-bound application,traditional memory controller,new memory system architecture,conventional system,bus utilization,memory controller | Registered memory,Interleaved memory,Uniform memory access,Physical address,Computer science,Parallel computing,Cache-only memory architecture,Memory address,Memory map,Memory controller | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
7 | 3-4 | 9 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.86 | 23 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| John B. Carter | 1 | 1785 | 162.82 |
| Wilson C. Hsieh | 2 | 2532 | 261.94 |
| Leigh Stoller | 3 | 462 | 49.03 |
| Mark Swanson | 4 | 20 | 2.33 |
| Lixin Zhang | 5 | 571 | 45.96 |
| Sally A. Mckee | 6 | 1928 | 152.59 |