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1992
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Willow: A Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessor
We are currently developing Willow, a shared-memory multiprocessor whose design provides system capacity and performance capable of supporting over a thousand commercial microproc...
John K. Bennett, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Jay A. Greenwo...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Characterization of TCC on Chip-Multiprocessors
Transactional Coherence and Consistency (TCC) is a novel coherence scheme for shared memory multiprocessors that uses programmer-defined transactions as the fundamental unit of p...
Austen McDonald, JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Chi...
ISCA
2011
IEEE
238views Hardware» more  ISCA 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Rebound: scalable checkpointing for coherent shared memory
As we move to large manycores, the hardware-based global checkpointing schemes that have been proposed for small shared-memory machines do not scale. Scalability barriers include ...
Rishi Agarwal, Pranav Garg, Josep Torrellas
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Shasta: A Low Overhead, Software-Only Approach for Supporting Fine-Grain Shared Memory
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
SIGMETRICS
1996
ACM
118views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1996»
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating Performance Monitoring and Communication in Parallel Computers
A large and increasing gap exists between processor and memory speeds in scalable cache-coherent multiprocessors. To cope with this situation, programmers and compiler writers mus...
Margaret Martonosi, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich