ISCA
1993
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1993
IEEE
Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
ICPP
1993
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1993
IEEE
Current and emerging high-performance parallel computer architectures generally implement one of two types of communication mechanisms: shared memory (SM) or message passing (MP)....
HICSS
1994
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1994
IEEE
This paper addresses a purely software-based solution to the multiprocessor cache coherence problem by structuring an operating system to provide for the coherence of its own data...
HICSS
1994
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1994
IEEE
Shared memory architectures often have caches to reduce the number of slow remote memory accesses. The largest possible caches exist in shared memory architectures called Cache-On...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
1996
ACM
This paper describes the synchronization and communication primitives of the Cray T3E multiprocessor, a shared memory system scalable to 2048 processors. We discuss what we have l...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
1996
ACM
On a distributed memory machine, hand-coded message passing leads to the most efficient execution, but it is difficult to use. Parallelizing compilers can approach the performance...
HPCN
1997
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
1997
Springer
Abstract. We describe a programming interface for parallel computing on NUMA (NonUniform Memory Access) shared memory machines. Although the interest in this architecture is rapidl...
ISCA
1996
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1996
IEEE
Parallel workstations, each comprising 10-100 processors, promise cost-effective general-purpose multiprocessing. This paper explores the coupling of such small- to medium-scale s...
ICPP
1996
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1996
IEEE
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1996
IEEE
We introduce a shared memory software prototype system for executing programs with nested parallelism on a network of workstations. This programming model exhibits a very convenie...