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WMPI
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Memory coherence activity prediction in commercial workloads
Abstract. Recent research indicates that prediction-based coherence optimizations offer substantial performance improvements for scientific applications in distributed shared memor...
Stephen Somogyi, Thomas F. Wenisch, Nikolaos Harda...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Improving Multiprocessor Performance with Coarse-Grain Coherence Tracking
To maintain coherence in conventional shared-memory multiprocessor systems, processors first check other processors’ caches before obtaining data from memory. This coherence che...
Jason F. Cantin, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E. Smith
DSN
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Verification of Memory Consistency in Cache-Coherent Multithreaded Computer Architectures
—Multithreaded servers with cache-coherent shared memory are the dominant type of machines used to run critical network services and database management systems. To achieve the h...
Albert Meixner, Daniel J. Sorin
MICRO
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A tagless coherence directory
A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based ...
Jason Zebchuk, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Moinuddin...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Store-Ordered Streaming of Shared Memory
Coherence misses in shared-memory multiprocessors account for a substantial fraction of execution time in many important scientific and commercial workloads. Memory streaming prov...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Stephen Somogyi, Nikolaos Harda...