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SSS
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
A Provably Starvation-Free Distributed Directory Protocol
Abstract. This paper presents Combine, a distributed directory protocol for shared objects, designed for large-scale distributed systems. Directory protocols support move requests,...
Hagit Attiya, Vincent Gramoli, Alessia Milani
ISCA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Token Coherence: Decoupling Performance and Correctness
Many future shared-memory multiprocessor servers will both target commercial workloads and use highly-integrated “glueless” designs. Implementing low-latency cache coherence i...
Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
MICRO
2008
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Token tenure: PATCHing token counting using directory-based cache coherence
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...
Arun Raghavan, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin