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ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
14 years 22 days ago
OPTNET: A Cost-effective Optical Network for Multiprocessors
In this paper we propose the OPTNET, a novel optical network and associated coherence protocol for scalable multiprocessors. The network divides its channels into broadcast and po...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
ISCA
1998
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
14 years 23 days ago
The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance
Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Al...
Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, K...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
202views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Hardware Support for Relaxed Concurrency Control in Transactional Memory
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...
Utku Aydonat, Tarek S. Abdelrahman
CF
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Core monitors: monitoring performance in multicore processors
As we reach the limits of single-core computing, we are promised more and more cores in our systems. Modern architectures include many performance counters per core, but few or no...
Paul E. West, Yuval Peress, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A...