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TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Performance Evaluation and Cost Analysis of Cache Protocol Extensions for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
—We evaluate three extensions to directory-based cache coherence protocols in shared-memory multiprocessors. These extensions are aimed at reducing the penalties associated with ...
Fredrik Dahlgren, Michel Dubois, Per Stenströ...
CDES
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Scalable Directory Organization for Tiled CMP Architectures
Although directory-based cache coherence protocols are the best choice when designing chip multiprocessor architectures (CMPs) with tens of processor cores on chip, the memory ove...
Alberto Ros, Manuel E. Acacio, José M. Garc...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
So Many States, So Little Time: Verifying Memory Coherence in the Cray X1
This paper investigates a complexity-effective technique for verifying a highly distributed directory-based cache coherence protocol. We develop a novel approach called “witnes...
Dennis Abts, Steve Scott, David J. Lilja