HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 12 months ago
2012
IEEE
Data races are a major contributor to parallel software unreliability. A type of race that is both common and typically harmful is the Asymmetric data race. It occurs when at leas...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 12 months ago
2012
IEEE
Large-scale CMPs with hundreds of cores require a directory-based protocol to maintain cache coherence. However, previously proposed coherence directories are hard to scale beyond...
CODES
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Today, mobile smartphones are expected to be able to run the same complex, memory-intensive applications that were originally designed and coded for general-purpose processors. Ho...
ISCA
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
As we move to large manycores, the hardware-based global checkpointing schemes that have been proposed for small shared-memory machines do not scale. Scalability barriers include ...
USENIX
1994
13 years 5 months ago
1994
To function in mobile computing environments, distributed file systems must cope with networks that are slow, intermittent, or both. Intermittence vitiates the effectiveness of ca...
DSD
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Due to modern technology trends such as decreasing feature sizes and lower voltage levels, fault tolerance is becoming increasingly important in computing systems. Shared memory i...
SC
1995
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
1995
ACM
The Convex SPP-1000 is the first commercial implementation of a new generation of scalable shared memory parallel computers with full cache coherence. It employs a hierarchical s...
ACSC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper presents a case study for automatic verification using the Communicating Sequential Processes formalism. The case study concerns the Futurebus+ cache coherency standard...
PODC
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1994
ACM
The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
CANPC
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
Streamlining communication is key to achieving good performance in shared-memory parallel programs. While full hardware support for cache coherence generally offers the best perfo...