This paper addresses a purely software-based solution to the multiprocessor cache coherence problem by structuring an operating system to provide for the coherence of its own data...
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...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although c...