期刊名称：International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing
印刷版ISSN：2005-4262
出版年度：2016
卷号：9
期号：11
页码：81-94
出版社：SERSC
摘要：Both performance and capacity of the main memory are the key to the computer systems in current architecture. DRAM, which is the most used main memory, can’t extend in capacity for its high energy consumption and repeatedly refresh. Fortunately, some new memory mediums, such as phase-change memory (PRAM), are used to replace traditional DRAM memory. These new memories have many advantages, like low energy consumption, without repeatedly refresh, high density storage, and so on. Therefore, these memories are promising. However, their low read/write performance and limited life are restricted the replacement process. In current time, hybrid memory, which consists of both PRAM and DRAM, is a good choice. In this way, the memory capacity can be extended. So, the most challenge for the hybrid memory is the performance. In this paper, we propose a dynamic hybrid LRU caching scheme (DH-LRU) for the last level cache in PRAM/DRAM hybrid main memory to improve the main memory performance. Compared with traditional cache policies, like LRU, FIFO, RANDOM, CFLRU, our DH-LRUimproves performance by 4.6%. Moreover, energy consumption of write and read operation can be reduced up to 88.2%.
