—We evaluate three extensions to directory-based cache coherence protocols in shared-memory multiprocessors. These extensions are aimed at reducing the penalties associated with ...
In this work we present an initial performance evaluation of Intel's latest, secondgeneration quad-core processor, Nehalem, and provide a comparison to first-generation AMD a...
Kevin J. Barker, Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Darren ...
The Convex SPP-1000 is the first commercial implementation of a new generation of scalable shared memory parallel computers with full cache coherence. It employs a hierarchical s...
Thomas L. Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Peter MacNeic...
We present a tool suite for building, simulating, and analyzing the results of hierarchical descriptions of the scheduling policy for modules sharing a bus in real-time applicatio...
Trevor Meyerowitz, Claudio Pinello, Alberto L. San...
In this paper, we present an early performance evaluation of a 624-core cluster based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5560 (code named “Nehalem-EP”, and referred to as Xeon 55...