Title :
Concurrent Average Memory Access Time
Author :
Xian-He Sun ; Dawei Wang
Author_Institution :
Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
Traditional memory performance metrics, such as average memory access time (AMAT), are designed for sequential data accesses and can prove misleading for contemporary cache technologies that increasingly rely on access concurrency. C-AMAT, a new performance metric, accounts for concurrency at both the component and system levels for modern memory design.
Keywords :
cache storage; concurrency control; memory architecture; performance evaluation; C-AMAT; access concurrency; component levels; concurrent average memory access time; contemporary cache technologies; modern memory design; sequential data accesses; system levels; traditional memory performance metrics; Benchmark testing; Concurrent computing; Memory management; Multicore processing; Performance evaluation; AMAT; advanced cache design measurement; cache concurrency; high performance computing; memory concurrency; memory metrics; memory performance measurement;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2013.227
