While Sequential Consistency (SC) is the most intuitive memory consistency model and the one most programmers likely assume, current multiprocessors do not support it. Instead, th...
Luis Ceze, James Tuck, Pablo Montesinos, Josep Tor...
Store misses cause significant delays in shared-memory multiprocessors because of limited store buffering and ordering constraints required for proper synchronization. Today, prog...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Anastassia Ailamaki, Babak Fals...
An important means of validating the design of commercial-grade shared memory multiprocessors is to run a large number of pseudo-random test programs on them. However, when intent...