This paper introduces a cost-effective technique to deal with CMP coherence protocol requirements from the interconnection network point of view. A mechanism is presented to avoid...
Advances in optical technology have increased the interest for multiprocessor architectures based on lightwave networks because of the vast bandwidth available. In this paper we p...
Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
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...
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...