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ISCA
1994
IEEE
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Software-Extended Coherent Shared Memory: Performance and Cost
This paper evaluates the tradeoffs involved in the design of the software-extended memory system of Alewife, a multiprocessor architecturethat implements coherentsharedmemorythrou...
David Chaiken, Anant Agarwal
ISCA
1994
IEEE
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Software Versus Hardware Shared-Memory Implementation: A Case Study
We comparethe performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors,...
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, ...
ISCA
1994
IEEE
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A Unified Architectural Tradeoff Methodology
Wepresentaunijiedapp?'each to assess thet7adeoff of architecture techniques that affect mean memory access time. The architectural features we consider inciude cache hit Tati...
Chung-Ho Chen, Arun K. Somani
ISCA
1994
IEEE
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Exploring the Design Space for a Shared-Cache Multiprocessor
In the near future, semiconductor technology will allow the integration of multiple processors on a chip or multichipmodule (MCM). In this paper we investigate the architecture an...
Basem A. Nayfeh, Kunle Olukotun
ISCA
1994
IEEE
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Evaluating Stream Buffers as a Secondary Cache Replacement
Today's commodity microprocessors require a low latency memory system to achieve high sustained performance. The conventional high-performance memory system provides fast dat...
Subbarao Palacharla, Richard E. Kessler
Hardware
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