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...
To maintain coherence in conventional shared-memory multiprocessor systems, processors first check other processors’ caches before obtaining data from memory. This coherence che...
Runtime monitoring support serves as a foundation for the important tasks of providing security, performing debugging, and improving performance of applications. Often runtime mon...
- Among all software cache coherence strategaes, the ones that are based on the concept of tamestamps show the greatest potentaal an terms of cache performance. The early tamestamp...
Snoopy cache coherence protocols broadcast requests to all nodes, reducing the latency of cache to cache transfer misses at the expense of increasing interconnect power. We propos...