ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
Recent attention to speculative execution as a mechanism for increasing performance of single instruction streams has demanded substantially better branch prediction than what has...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
Parity encoded redundant disk arrays provide highly reliable, cost effective secondary storage with high performance for read accesses and large write accesses. Their performance ...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
Parallel programs that use critical sections and are executed on a shared-memory multiprocessor with a writeinvalidate protocol result in invalidation actions that could be elimin...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
er uses an abstract machine approach to compare the mechanisms of two parallel machines: the J-Machine and the CM-5. High-level parallel programs are translated by a single optimi...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
The distribution of resources among processors, memory and caches is a crucial question faced by designers of large-scale parallel machines. If a machine is to solve problems with...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
Virtual memoy page translation tables provide mappings from virtual to physical addresses. When the hardware controlled Tratmlation L.ookaside Buffers (TLBs) do not contain a tran...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
We evaluate the e ect of processor speed, network bandwidth, and software overhead on the performance of release-consistent software distributed shared memory. We examine ve di er...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
In this paper we introduce a classification of misses in shared-memory multiprocessors based on inter processor communication. We identify the set of essential misses, i.e., the s...