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ARCS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Adding Low-Cost Hardware Barrier Support to Small Commodity Clusters
The performance of the barrier operation can be crucial for many parallel codes. Especially distributed shared memory systems have to synchronize frequently to ensure the proper o...
Torsten Hoefler, Torsten Mehlan, Frank Mietke, Wol...
IPPS
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
View Caching: Efficient Software Shared Memory for Dynamic Computations
Software distributed shared memory (DSM) techniques, while effective on applications with coarse-grained sharing, yield poor performance for the fine-grained sharing encountered i...
Vijay Karamcheti, Andrew A. Chien
HPCC
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Lazy Home-Based Protocol: Combining Homeless and Home-Based Distributed Shared Memory Protocols
Abstract. This paper presents our novel protocol design and implementation of an all-software page-based DSM system. The protocol combines the advantages of homeless and home-based...
Byung-Hyun Yu, Paul Werstein, Martin K. Purvis, St...
EUROPAR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fast and Efficient Synchronization and Communication Collective Primitives for Dual Cell-Based Blades
The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is a heterogeneous multi-core processor specifically designed to exploit thread-level parallelism. Its memory model comprehends a common shared ...
Epifanio Gaona, Juan Fernández, Manuel E. A...
PACT
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Support for Fine-Grained Synchronization in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Abstract. It has been already verified that hardware-supported finegrain synchronization provides a significant performance improvement over coarse-grained synchronization mecha...
Vladimir Vlassov, Oscar Sierra Merino, Csaba Andra...