While the IP unicast service has proven successful, extending end-to-end adaptation to multicast has been a difficult problem. Unlike the unicast case, multicast protocols must su...
This paper proposes a new coherence method called "multicast snooping" that dynamically adapts between broadcast snooping and a directory protocol. Multicast snooping is...
E. Ender Bilir, Ross M. Dickson, Ying Hu, Manoj Pl...
The performance of irregular applications on modern computer systems is hurt by the wide gap between CPU and memory speeds because these applications typically underutilize multi-...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, David B. Whalley, Ken Kenn...
The performance of a concurrent multithreaded architectural model, called superthreading 15 , is studied in this paper. It tries to integrate optimizing compilation techniques and...
Jenn-Yuan Tsai, Zhenzhen Jiang, Eric Ness, Pen-Chu...
We have built an eight node SMP cluster called COMPaS (Cluster Of Multi-Processor Systems), each node of which is a quadprocessor Pentium Pro PC. We have designed and implemented a...