ISCA
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Two broad classes of memory models are available today: models with hardware cache coherence, used in conventional chip multiprocessors, and models that rely upon software to mana...
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
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...