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IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Sirocco: Cost-Effective Fine-Grain Distributed Shared Memory
Software fine-grain distributed shared memory (FGDSM) provides a simplified shared-memory programming interface with minimal or no hardware support. Originally software FGDSMs tar...
Ioannis Schoinas, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, Jam...
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...
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...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 14 days ago
Communication Optimizations for Fine-Grained UPC Applications
Global address space languages like UPC exhibit high performance and portability on a broad class of shared and distributed memory parallel architectures. The most scalable applic...
Wei-Yu Chen, Costin Iancu, Katherine A. Yelick
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Efficient hardware support for the Partitioned Global Address Space
We present a novel architecture of a communication engine for non-coherent distributed shared memory systems. The shared memory is composed by a set of nodes exporting their memory...
Holger Fröning, Heiner Litz