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ICS
1993
Tsinghua U.
13 years 9 months ago
1993
Tsinghua U.
Shared-memory provides a uniform and attractive mechanism for communication. For efficiency, it is often implemented with a layer of interpretive hardware on top of a message-pas...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Al...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1998
ACM
In many real applications, for example those with frequent and irregular communication patterns or those using large messages, network contention and contention for message proces...
PPOPP
1993
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1993
ACM
This paper discusses some of the issues involved in implementing a shared-address space programming model on large-scale, distributed-memory multiprocessors. While such a programm...
HPCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
The goal of this paper is to gain insight into the relative performance of communication mechanisms as bisection bandwidth and network latency vary. We compare shared memory with ...