PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1997
ACM
Some of the most common parallel programming idioms include locks, barriers, and reduction operations. The interaction of these programming idioms with the multiprocessor's c...
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
14 years 3 months ago
1998
Tsinghua U.
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...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Abstract. We address the problem of developing efficient cache coherence protocols implementing distributed shared memory (DSM) using message passing. A serious drawback of traditi...
ISCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2000
IEEE
Value locality, a recently discovered program attribute that describes the likelihood of the recurrence of previously-seen program values, has been studied enthusiastically in the...
WMPI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2004
ACM
User-controllable coherence revives the idea of cooperation between software and hardware in an attempt to bridge the gap between efficient small-scale shared memory machines and m...
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper explores a new technique called coherence decoupling, which breaks a traditional cache coherence protocol into two protocols: a Speculative Cache Lookup (SCL) protocol ...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...