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WMPI
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
User-controllable coherence revives the idea of cooperation between software and hardware in an attempt to bridge the gap between efficient small-scale shared memory machines and m...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
We present a new arrangement of directory bits called the segment directory to improve directory storage efficiency: a segment directory can point to several sharing processors wi...
ASPLOS
1991
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1991
ACM
Caches enhance the performance of multiprocessors by reducing network trac and average memory access latency. However, cache-based systems must address the problem of cache coher...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Shared memory multiprocessors play an increasingly important role in enterprise and scientific computing facilities. Remote misses limit the performance of shared memory applicat...