Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng. Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk

Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008. - 982 p.The book tells you everything you need to know about the logical design and operation, physical design and operation, performance characteristics and resulting design trade-offs, and the energy consumption of modern memory hierarchies. You learn how to to tackle the challenging optimization problems that result from the side-effects that can appear at any point in the entire hierarchy.As a result you will be able to design and emulate the entire memory hierarchy.. Understand all levels of the system hierarchy -Xcache, DRAM, and disk.
. Evaluate the system-level effects of all design choices.
. Model performance and energy consumption for each component in the memory hierarchy.