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HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Adaptive Cache Coherence Protocol Optimized for Producer-Consumer Sharing
Shared memory multiprocessors play an increasingly important role in enterprise and scientific computing facilities. Remote misses limit the performance of shared memory applicat...
Liqun Cheng, John B. Carter, Donglai Dai
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
The Thrifty Barrier: Energy-Aware Synchronization in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Much research has been devoted to making microprocessors energy-efficient. However, little attention has been paid to multiprocessor environments where, due to the co-operative na...
Jian Li, José F. Martínez, Michael C...
SC
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Architectural Mechanisms for Explicit Communication in Shared Memory Multiprocessors
The goal of this work is to explore architectural mechanisms for supporting explicit communication in cachecoherent shared memory multiprocessors. The motivation stems from the ob...
Umakishore Ramachandran, Gautam Shah, Anand Sivasu...
SPAA
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The complexity of verifying memory coherence
The general problem of verifying coherence for shared-memory multiprocessor executions is NP-Complete. Verifying memory consistency models is therefore NP-Hard, because memory con...
Jason F. Cantin, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E. Smith
ICCD
1994
IEEE
85views Hardware» more  ICCD 1994»
13 years 12 months ago
A Superassociative Tagged Cache Coherence Directory
Dynamically tagged directories are memory-efficient mechanisms for maintaining cache coherence in sharedmemory multiprocessors. These directories use specialpurpose caches of poin...
David J. Lilja, Shanthi Ambalavanan