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Understanding and improving the memory hierarchy behavior is one of the most important challenges in current architectures. Analytical models are a good approach for this, but they have been traditionally limited by either their restricted scope of application or their lack of accuracy. Most models can only predict the cache behavior of codes that generate regular access patterns. The Probabilistic Miss Equation(PME) model is able nevertheless to model accurately the cache behavior for codes with irregular access patterns due to data-dependent conditionals or indirections. Its main limitation is that it only considers irregular access patterns that exhibit an uniform distribution of the accesses. In this work, we extend the PME model to enable to analyze more realistic and complex irregular accesses. Namely, we consider indirections due to the compressed storage of most real banded matrices.
This work has been supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain under contract TIN 2004-07797-C02-02 and Xunta de Galicia under contract PGIDIT 03TIC10502PR.
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Andrade, D., Fraguela, B.B., Doallo, R. (2007). Cache Behavior Modelling for Codes Involving Banded Matrices. In: Almási, G., Caşcaval, C., Wu, P. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72521-3_16
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