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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
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Simplifying Active Memory Clusters by Leveraging Directory Protocol Threads
Address re-mapping techniques in so-called active memory systems have been shown to dramatically increase the performance of applications with poor cache and/or communication beha...
Dhiraj D. Kalamkar, Mainak Chaudhuri, Mark Heinric...
MAM
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A performance evaluation of cache injection in bus-based shared memory multiprocessors
Bus-based shared memory multiprocessors with private caches and snooping write-invalidate cache coherence protocols are dominant form of small- to medium-scale parallel machines t...
Aleksandar Milenkovic, Veljko M. Milutinovic
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Speculative supplier identification for reducing power of interconnects in snoopy cache coherence protocols
In this work we reduce interconnect power dissipation in Symmetric Multiprocessors or SMPs. We revisit snoopy cache coherence protocols and reduce unnecessary interconnect activit...
Ehsan Atoofian, Amirali Baniasadi, Kaveh Aasaraai
ISCA
1994
IEEE
123views Hardware» more  ISCA 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
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