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Application controlled

The Unified and Level-aware Caching (ULC) algorithm [19] controls a cache hierarchy from the highest level by issuing RETRIEVE and DEMOTE commands to lower caches causing them to move blocks up and down the hierarchy, respectively. The highest cache level (application client) has to keep track of the contents of all the caches below, which entails complexity in the client's implementation.



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