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ICPP
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Improving Performance of Load-Store Sequences for Transaction Processing Workloads on Multiprocessors
On-line transaction processing exhibits poor memory behavior in high-end multiprocessor servers because of complex sharing patterns and substantial interaction between the databas...
Jim Nilsson, Fredrik Dahlgren
USENIX
1993
13 years 9 months ago
HighLight: Using a Log-structured File System for Tertiary Storage Management
Robotic storage devices offer huge storage capacity at a low cost per byte, but with large access times. Integrating these devices into the storage hierarchy presents a challenge ...
John T. Kohl, Carl Staelin, Michael Stonebraker
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Software Cache Coherence for Large Scale Multiprocessors
Shared memory is an appealing abstraction for parallel programming. It must be implemented with caches in order toperform well, however, and caches require a coherence mechanism t...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Silent stores for free
Silent store instructions write values that exactly match the values that are already stored at the memory address that is being written. A recent study reveals that significant ...
Kevin M. Lepak, Mikko H. Lipasti
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Scheduling Algorithms for Effective Thread Pairing on Hybrid Multiprocessors
With the latest high-end computing nodes combining shared-memory multiprocessing with hardware multithreading, new scheduling policies are necessary for workloads consisting of mu...
Robert L. McGregor, Christos D. Antonopoulos, Dimi...