Shared memory is an appealing abstraction for parallel programming. It must be implemented with caches in order toperform well, however, and caches require a coherence mechanism t...
Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) combines the scalability of loosely coupled multicomputer systems with the ease of usability of tightly coupled multiprocessors, and allows transpa...
M. Rasit Eskicioglu, T. Anthony Marsland, Weiwu Hu...
Mutual exclusion protocols are an essential building block of concurrent systems: indeed, such a protocol is required whenever a shared resource has to be protected against concurr...
Shared memory multiprocessors play an increasingly important role in enterprise and scientific computing facilities. Remote misses limit the performance of shared memory applicat...
Due to modern technology trends such as decreasing feature sizes and lower voltage levels, fault tolerance is becoming increasingly important in computing systems. Shared memory i...