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ICPP
1991
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Cache Coherence on a Slotted Ring
-- The Express Ring is a new architecture under investigation at the University of Southern California. Its main goal is to demonstrate that a slotted unidirectional ring with very...
Luiz André Barroso, Michel Dubois
ISCA
1993
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
The Performance of Cache-Coherent Ring-based Multiprocessors
Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
Luiz André Barroso, Michel Dubois
MICRO
2006
IEEE
117views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Coherence Ordering for Ring-based Chip Multiprocessors
Ring interconnects may be an attractive solution for future chip multiprocessors because they can enable faster links than buses and simpler switches than arbitrary switched inter...
Michael R. Marty, Mark D. Hill
MICRO
2007
IEEE
94views Hardware» more  MICRO 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Uncorq: Unconstrained Snoop Request Delivery in Embedded-Ring Multiprocessors
Snoopy cache coherence can be implemented in any physical network topology by embedding a logical unidirectional ring in the network. Control messages are forwarded using the ring...
Karin Strauss, Xiaowei Shen, Josep Torrellas
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
NetCache: A Network/Cache Hybrid for Multiprocessors
In this paper we propose the use of an optical network not only as the communication medium, but also as a system-wide cache for the shared data in a multiprocessor. More specifica...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini