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A High-Performance Framework for Dynamic Cache-Replacement-Strategy-Selection in Distributed Shared Memory Systems

Background

Various Kinds of (Distributed) Systems (What makes a system "distributed", anyways?) \rightarrow (Distributed) Cache Replacement Algorithms (Strategies) \rightarrow Limitations to common distributed cache replacement practices in extremely time-sensitive scenarios (like ours) \rightarrow Variables that need to be accounted for in cache replacement problms \rightarrow Need for dynamic manipulation to cache replacement strategy, which implies probing & measurement & comparison, etc. \rightarrow Framework for such a thing, which is what we explore in this paper.