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ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 8 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...
IWOMP
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Support for Fine Grained Dependent Tasks in OpenMP
OpenMP is widely used for shared memory parallel programming and is especially useful for the parallelisation of loops. When it comes to task parallelism, however, OpenMP is less p...
Oliver Sinnen, Jsun Pe, Alexander Vladimirovich Ko...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Comparative Evaluation of Fine- and Coarse-Grain Approaches for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Leonidas ...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Low-Overhead Protocols for Fault-Tolerant File Sharing
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
Lorenzo Alvisi, Sriram Rao, Harrick M. Vin
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 8 days ago
Aikido: accelerating shared data dynamic analyses
Despite a burgeoning demand for parallel programs, the tools available to developers working on shared-memory multicore processors have lagged behind. One reason for this is the l...
Marek Olszewski, Qin Zhao, David Koh, Jason Ansel,...