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IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 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...
PACT
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Support for Fine-Grained Synchronization in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Abstract. It has been already verified that hardware-supported finegrain synchronization provides a significant performance improvement over coarse-grained synchronization mecha...
Vladimir Vlassov, Oscar Sierra Merino, Csaba Andra...
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...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Communication Optimizations for Fine-Grained UPC Applications
Global address space languages like UPC exhibit high performance and portability on a broad class of shared and distributed memory parallel architectures. The most scalable applic...
Wei-Yu Chen, Costin Iancu, Katherine A. Yelick
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Efficient hardware support for the Partitioned Global Address Space
We present a novel architecture of a communication engine for non-coherent distributed shared memory systems. The shared memory is composed by a set of nodes exporting their memory...
Holger Fröning, Heiner Litz