Adaptive Management of Memory Hierarchies

There are two goals in this research effort: improve memory system performance via monitoring application behavior and adjusting replacement and prefetching strategies, and investigate coordinated resource management strategies that provide high predictability and high assurance.

Publications

Adaptive Page Replacement. Gideon Glass, Master's Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1997.
Adaptive Page Replacement based on Memory Reference Behavior. Gideon Glass and Pei Cao. Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 1997, pp. 115-126.
User-Oriented Resource Scheduling in UNIX John K. Edwards and Pei Cao,
Technical Report, Univ. of Wisconsin, Department of Computer Science, CS-TR-96-1318.

Traces, Simulations and Tools

The following are available upon request (send email to gid@cs.wisc.edu or cao@cs.wisc.edu):

Compact memory reference traces for 18 applications;
Simulators of LRU, SEQ and OPT replacement algorithm using the traces;
Tools to plot space-time graph from the traces.