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ISCA
1996
IEEE
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MGS: A Multigrain Shared Memory System
Parallel workstations, each comprising 10-100 processors, promise cost-effective general-purpose multiprocessing. This paper explores the coupling of such small- to medium-scale s...
Donald Yeung, John Kubiatowicz, Anant Agarwal
ISCA
1997
IEEE
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The Interaction of Software Prefetching with ILP Processors in Shared-Memory Systems
Current microprocessors aggressively exploit instructionlevel parallelism (ILP) through techniques such as multiple issue, dynamic scheduling, and non-blocking reads. Recent work ...
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Vijay S. Pai, Hazim Abd...
HPCA
1998
IEEE
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Comparative Evaluation of Latency Tolerance Techniques for Software Distributed Shared Memory
A key challenge in achieving high performance on software DSM systems is overcoming their relatively large communication latencies. In this paper, we consider two techniques which...
Todd C. Mowy, Charles Q. C. Chan, Adley K. W. Lo
HPCA
1999
IEEE
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Comparative Evaluation of Fine- and Coarse-Grain Approaches for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Leonidas ...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
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Managing Concurrent Access for Shared Memory Active Messages
Passing messages through shared memory plays an important role on symmetric multiprocessors and on Clumps. The management of concurrent access to message queues is an important as...
Steven Lumetta, David E. Culler