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ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
An Integrated Compile-Time/Run-Time Software Distributed Shared Memory System
On a distributed memory machine, hand-coded message passing leads to the most efficient execution, but it is difficult to use. Parallelizing compilers can approach the performance...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A Quantitative Analysis of Loop Nest Locality
This paper analyzes and quantifies the locality characteristics of numerical loop nests in order to suggest future directions for architecture and software cache optimizations. Si...
Kathryn S. McKinley, Olivier Temam
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...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes
: One of the fundamental limits to high-performance, high-reliability file systems is memory's vulnerability to system crashes. Because memory is viewed as unsafe, systems per...
Peter M. Chen, Wee Teck Ng, Subhachandra Chandra, ...