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HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Fault-Tolerance with Multimodule Routers
The current multiprocessors such asCray T3D support interprocessor communication using partitioned dimension-order routers (PDRs). In a PDR implementation, the routing logic and sw...
Suresh Chalasani, Rajendra V. Boppana
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Release-Consistent Shared Virtual Memory Using Automatic Update
Shared virtual memory is a software technique to provide shared memory on a network of computers without special hardware support. Although several relaxed consistency models and ...
Liviu Iftode, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. Felten, K...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of Entry Consistency and Lazy Release Consistency Implementations
This paper compares several implementations of entry consistency (EC) and lazy release consistency (LRC), two relaxed memory models in use with software distributed shared memory ...
Sarita V. Adve, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ra...