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EUROPAR
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A Novel Lightweight Directory Architecture for Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
There are two important hurdles that restrict the scalability of directory-based shared-memory multiprocessors: the directory memory overhead and the long L2 miss latencies due to ...
Alberto Ros, Manuel E. Acacio, José M. Garc...
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HPCA
2002
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Bandwidth Adaptive Snooping
This paper advocates that cache coherence protocols use a bandwidth adaptive approach to adjust to varied system configurations (e.g., number of processors) and workload behaviors...
Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, ...
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HPCA
2012
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
SCD: A scalable coherence directory with flexible sharer set encoding
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...
Daniel Sanchez, Christos Kozyrakis
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MICRO
2009
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
A tagless coherence directory
A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based ...
Jason Zebchuk, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Moinuddin...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Simplifying Active Memory Clusters by Leveraging Directory Protocol Threads
Address re-mapping techniques in so-called active memory systems have been shown to dramatically increase the performance of applications with poor cache and/or communication beha...
Dhiraj D. Kalamkar, Mainak Chaudhuri, Mark Heinric...