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HPCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Implementation of Atomic Primitives on Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors
In this paper we consider several hardware implementations of the general-purpose atomic primitives fetch and Φ, compare and swap, load linked, and store conditionalon large-scal...
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
HPCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Access Ordering and Memory-Conscious Cache Utilization
As processor speeds increase relative to memory speeds, memory bandwidth is rapidly becoming the limiting performance factor for many applications. Several approaches to bridging ...
Sally A. McKee, William A. Wulf
HPCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Reducing Communication Latency with Path Multiplexing in Optically Interconnected Multiprocessor Systems
—Reducing communication latency, which is a performance bottleneck in optically interconnected multiprocessor systems, is of prominent importance. A conventional approach for est...
Chunming Qiao, Rami G. Melhem
HPCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Software Cache Coherence for Large Scale Multiprocessors
Shared memory is an appealing abstraction for parallel programming. It must be implemented with caches in order toperform well, however, and caches require a coherence mechanism t...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott
HPCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Program Balance and Its Impact on High Performance RISC Architectures
Information on the behavior of programs is essential for deciding the number and nature of functional units in high performance architectures. In this paper, we present studies on...
Lizy Kurian John, Vinod Reddy, Paul T. Hulina, Lee...
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HPCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Effects of STEF in Finely Parallel Multithreaded Processors
The throughput of a multiple-pipelined processor suffers due to lack of sufficient instructions to make multiple pipelines busy and due to delays associated with pipeline depende...
Yamin Li, Wanming Chu
ICPP
1997
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Affinity Entry Consistency Protocol
In this paper we propose a novel software-only distributed sharedmemory system (SW-DSM), the Affinity Entry Consistency (AEC) protocol. The protocol is based on Entry Consistency ...
Cristiana Bentes Seidel, Ricardo Bianchini, Claudi...
FTDCS
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Engineering Approach towards Action Refinement
Dick A. C. Quartel, Luís Ferreira Pires, He...
FTDCS
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Network Channel Buffer Scheduling Algorithm for an Interactive VOD Server
A VOD server handles various types of media such as continuous media (CM) and non-continuous media (NM). Conventional VOD server buffer scheduling algorithms like Round Robin (RR)...
Sungyoung Lee, Hyungill Kim, Jongwon Lee