ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Store misses cause significant delays in shared-memory multiprocessors because of limited store buffering and ordering constraints required for proper synchronization. Today, prog...
HPCA
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
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...