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HPCA
1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
In this paper we consider several hardware implementations of the general-purpose atomic primitives fetch and Φ, compare and swap, load linked, and store conditionalon large-scal...
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HPCA
1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
As processor speeds increase relative to memory speeds, memory bandwidth is rapidly becoming the limiting performance factor for many applications. Several approaches to bridging ...
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HPCA
1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
—Reducing communication latency, which is a performance bottleneck in optically interconnected multiprocessor systems, is of prominent importance. A conventional approach for est...