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HPCA
1996
IEEE
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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...
ICPP
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Partitioning of Data and Computations on Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors
Abstract—This paper describes an algorithm for deriving data and computation partitions on scalable shared memory multiprocessors. The algorithm establishes affinity relationshi...
Sudarsan Tandri, Tarek S. Abdelrahman
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance
Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Al...
Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, K...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Eliminating the Protocol Stack for Socket Based Communication in Shared Memory Interconnects
We show how the traditional protocol stack, such as TCP/IP, can be eliminated for socket based high speed communication within a cluster. The SCI shared memory interconnect is used...
Stein Jørgen Ryan, Haakon Bryhni
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Managing Concurrent Access for Shared Memory Active Messages
Passing messages through shared memory plays an important role on symmetric multiprocessors and on Clumps. The management of concurrent access to message queues is an important as...
Steven Lumetta, David E. Culler
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Parallelization of Benchmarks for Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
This work identifies practical compiling techniques for scalable shared memory machines. For this, we have focused on experimental studies using a real machine and representative ...
Yunheung Paek, Angeles G. Navarro, Emilio L. Zapat...
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Athapascan-1: On-Line Building Data Flow Graph in a Parallel Language
In order to achieve practical efficient execution on a parallel architecture, a knowledge of the data dependencies related to the application appears as the key point for building...
François Galilée, Jean-Louis Roch, G...
HPCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Sensitivity of Communication Mechanisms to Bandwidth and Latency
The goal of this paper is to gain insight into the relative performance of communication mechanisms as bisection bandwidth and network latency vary. We compare shared memory with ...
Frederic T. Chong, Rajeev Barua, Fredrik Dahlgren,...
HIPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Implementing Automatic Coordination on Networks of Workstations
Distributed shared objects are a well known approach to achieve independenceof the memory model for parallel programming. The illusion of shared (global) objects is a conabstracti...
Christian Weiß, Jürgen Knopp, Hermann H...
HIPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Constructive and Adaptable Distributed Shared Memory
Distributed shared memory (DSM) is a paradigm for programming distributed systems, which provides an alternative to the message passing model. DSM offers the agents of the system ...
Jordi Bataller, José M. Bernabéu-Aub...