This paper describes the comparison between homeless and home-based Lazy Release Consistency (LRC) protocols which are used to implement Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) in cluster...
Byung-Hyun Yu, Zhiyi Huang, Stephen Cranefield, Ma...
Abstract. This paper presents our novel protocol design and implementation of an all-software page-based DSM system. The protocol combines the advantages of homeless and home-based...
Byung-Hyun Yu, Paul Werstein, Martin K. Purvis, St...
We evaluate the e ect of processor speed, network bandwidth, and software overhead on the performance of release-consistent software distributed shared memory. We examine ve di er...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, ...
Home-based Lazy Release Consistency (HLRC) shows poor performance on lock based applications because of two reasons: (1) a whole page is fetched on a page fault while actual modif...
Release consistency is a widely accepted memory model for distributed shared memory systems. Eager release consistency represents the state of the art in release consistent protoc...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott, Rica...