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HPCA
1996
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
PDCAT
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A New Algorithm to Solve Synchronous Consensus for Dependent Failures
Fault tolerant algorithms are often designed under the t-out-of-n assumption, which is based on the assumption that all processes or components fail independently with equal proba...
Jun Wang, Min Song
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IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
NetCache: A Network/Cache Hybrid for Multiprocessors
In this paper we propose the use of an optical network not only as the communication medium, but also as a system-wide cache for the shared data in a multiprocessor. More specifica...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Origin 2000 Design Enhancements for Communication Intensive Applications
The SGI Origin 2000 is designedto support a wide range of applications and has low local and remote memory latencies. However, it often has a high ratio of remote to local misses....
Gheith A. Abandah, Edward S. Davidson
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EUROPAR
1997
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Prefetching and Multithreading Performance in Bus-Based Multiprocessors with Petri Nets
The large latency of memory accesses is a major obstacle in obtaining high processor utilization in large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Access to remote memory is likely to ...
Edward D. Moreno, Sergio Takeo Kofuji, Marcelo H. ...