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ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Coherence decoupling: making use of incoherence
This paper explores a new technique called coherence decoupling, which breaks a traditional cache coherence protocol into two protocols: a Speculative Cache Lookup (SCL) protocol ...
Jaehyuk Huh, Jichuan Chang, Doug Burger, Gurindar ...
ASPLOS
1994
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Reactive Synchronization Algorithms for Multiprocessors
Synchronization algorithms that are efficient across a wide range of applications and operating conditions are hard to design because their performance depends on unpredictable ru...
Beng-Hong Lim, Anant Agarwal
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Decoupling contention management from scheduling
Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts stro...
Ryan Johnson, Radu Stoica, Anastasia Ailamaki, Tod...
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management
With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
WOTUG
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Process Oriented Approach to USB Driver Development
Abstract. Operating-systems are the core software component of many modern computer systems, ranging from small specialised embedded systems through to large distributed operating-...
Carl G. Ritson, Fred R. M. Barnes