Sciweavers

2 search results - page 1 / 1
» Latency Impact on Spin-Lock Algorithms for Modern Shared Mem...
Sort
View
CISIS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Latency Impact on Spin-Lock Algorithms for Modern Shared Memory Multiprocessors
In 2006, John Mellor-Crummey and Michael Scott received the Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. This prize was for their 1991 paper on algorithms for scalable synchronization ...
Jan Christian Meyer, Anne C. Elster
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Friendly fire: understanding the effects of multiprocessor prefetches
Modern processors attempt to overcome increasing memory latencies by anticipating future references and prefetching those blocks from memory. The behavior and possible negative si...
Natalie D. Enright Jerger, Eric L. Hill, Mikko H. ...