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       * How much did the prefetcher cause misses in the demand misses?       * How much did the prefetcher cause misses in the demand misses?
         * Hard to quantify         * Hard to quantify
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 +===== Lecture 26 (4/3 Fri.) =====
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 +  * Feedback directed prefetcher
 +    * Use the result of the prefetcher as a feedback to the prefetcher
 +      * with accuracy, timeliness, polluting information
 +  * Markov prefetcher
 +    * Prefetch based on the previous history
 +    * Use markov model to predict
 +    * Pros: Can cover arbitary pattern (easy for link list traversal or trees)
 +    * Downside: High cost, cannot help with compulsory misses (no history)
 +  * Content directed prefetching
 +    * Indentify the content in memory for pointers (which is used as the address to prefetch
 +    * Not very efficient (hard to figure out which block is the pointer)
 +      * Software can give hints
 +  * Correlation table
 +    * Address correlation
 +  * Execution based prefetcher
 +    * Helper thread/​speculative thread
 +      * Use another thread to pre-execute a program
 +    * Can be a software based or hardware based
 +    * Discover misses before the main program (to prefetch data in a timely manner)
 +    * How do you construct the helper thread
 +    * Preexecute instruction (one example of how to initialize a speculative thread), slide 9
 +    * Thread-based pre-execution
 +  * Error tolerance
 +  * Solution to errors
 +    * Tolerate errors
 +      * New interface, new design
 +    * Eliminate or minimize errors
 +      * New technology, system-wide rethinking
 +    * Embrace errors
 +      * Map data that can tolerate errors to error-prone area
 +  * Hybrid memory systesm
 +    * Combining multiple memory technology together  ​
 +  * What can emerging technology help?
 +    * Scalability
 +    * Lower the cost
 +    * Energy efficiency
 +  * Possible solutions to the scaling problem
 +    * Less leakage DRAM
 +    * Heterogeneous DRAM (TL-DRAM, etc.)
 +    * Add more functionality to DRAM
 +    * Denser design (3D stack)
 +    * Different technology
 +      * NVM
 +  * Charge vs. resistice memory
 +    * How data is written?
 +    * How to read the data?
 +  * Non volatile memory
 +    * Resistive memory
 +      * PCM
 +        * Inject current to change the phase
 +        * Scales better than DRAM
 +          * Multiple bits per cell
 +            * Wider resistence range
 +        * No refresh is needed
 +        * Downside: Latency and write endurance
 +      * STT-MRAM
 +        * Inject current to change the polarity
 +      * Memristor
 +        * Inject current to change the structure
 +    * Pros and cons between different technologies
 +    * Persistency - data stay there even without power
 +      * Unified memory and storage management (persistent data structure) - Single level store
 +        * Improve energy and performance
 +        * Simplify programming model
 +  * Different design options for DRAM + NVM
 +    * DRAM as a cache
 +    * Place some data in DRAM and other in PCM
 +      * Based on the characteristics
 +        * Frequently accessed data that need lower write latency in DRAM
 +  ​
 +    ​
 +  ​
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