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ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Shasta: A Low Overhead, Software-Only Approach for Supporting Fine-Grain Shared Memory
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Sirocco: Cost-Effective Fine-Grain Distributed Shared Memory
Software fine-grain distributed shared memory (FGDSM) provides a simplified shared-memory programming interface with minimal or no hardware support. Originally software FGDSMs tar...
Ioannis Schoinas, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, Jam...
PODC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
LOTEC: A Simple DSM Consistency Protocol for Nested Object Transactions
In this paper, we describe an e cient software-only Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) consistency protocol for an unconventional but important application domain - object transactio...
Peter C. J. Graham, Yahong Sui
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Limits to the Performance of Software Shared Memory: A Layered Approach
Much research has been done in fast communication on clusters and in protocols for supporting software shared memory across them. However, the end performance of applications that...
Angelos Bilas, Dongming Jiang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Jasw...
ISCA
1994
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  ISCA 1994»
13 years 10 months ago
Software Versus Hardware Shared-Memory Implementation: A Case Study
We comparethe performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors,...
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, ...