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Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors

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Editors:
  1. Michel Dubois

    1. University of Southern California, USA

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  2. Shreekant Thakkar

    1. Sequent Computer Systems, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Access Order and Synchronization

    1. Combining Windows

      • Philip Bitar
      Pages 1-23

    2. Formal Specification of Memory Models

      • Pradeep S. Sindhu, Jean-Marc Frailong, Michel Cekleov
      Pages 25-41

    3. An Example of Correct Global Trace Generation

      • Mark A. Holliday, Carla S. Ellis
      Pages 43-57

    4. Locks, Directories, and Weak Coherence—a Recipe for Scalable Shared Memory Architectures

      • Joonwon Lee, Umakishore Ramachandran
      Pages 59-87

  3. Performance

    1. What is Scalability?

      • Mark D. Hill
      Pages 89-96

    2. Measuring Process Migration Effects Using an MP Simulator

      • Andrew Ladd, Trevor Mudge, Oyekunle Olukotun
      Pages 97-129

    3. Design and Analysis of a Scalable, Shared-memory System with Support for Burst Traffic

      • Elana D. Granston, Stephen W. Turner, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
      Pages 131-151

    4. Scalable Cache Coherence Analysis for Shared Memory Multiprocessors

      • Manu Thapar, Bruce Delagi
      Pages 153-166

    5. Reducing Memory and Traffic Requirements for Scalable Directory-Based Cache Coherence Schemes*

      • Anoop Gupta, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Todd Mowry
      Pages 167-192

  4. Cache Protocols and Architectures

    1. Multiprocessor Consistency and Synchronization through Transient Cache States

      • Erik Hagersten, Anders Landin, Seif Haridi
      Pages 193-205

    2. Delayed Consistency

      • Michel Dubois
      Pages 207-218

    3. The SCI Cache Coherence Protocol

      • Stein Gjessing, David B. Gustavson, James R. Goodman, David V. James, Ernst H. Kristiansen
      Pages 219-237

    4. The MIT Alewife Machine: A Large-Scale Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor

      • Anant Agarwal, David Chaiken, Kirk Johnson, David Kranz, John Kubiatowicz, Kiyoshi Kurihara et al.
      Pages 239-261

  5. Distributed Shared Memory

    1. Scalability Issues of Shared virtual Memory for Multicomputers

      • Kai Li
      Pages 263-279

    2. Toward Large-Scale Shared Memory Multiprocessing

      • John K. Bennett, John B. Carter, Willy Zwaenepoel
      Pages 281-300

    3. Local-area Memory in PLUS

      • R. Bisiani, M. Ravishankar
      Pages 301-311

    4. A Dynamic Memory Management Scheme for Shared Memory Multiprocessors

      • Tam M. Nguyen, Vason P. Srini
      Pages 313-329
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About this book

The workshop on Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors took place on May 26 and 27 1990 at the Stouffer Madison Hotel in Seattle, Washington as a prelude to the 1990 International Symposium on Computer Architecture. About 100 participants listened for two days to the presentations of 22 invited The motivation for this workshop was to speakers, from academia and industry. promote the free exchange of ideas among researchers working on shared-memory multiprocessor architectures. There was ample opportunity to argue with speakers, and certainly participants did not refrain a bit from doing so. Clearly, the problem of scalability in shared-memory multiprocessors is still a wide-open question. We were even unable to agree on a definition of "scalability". Authors had more than six months to prepare their manuscript, and therefore the papers included in this proceedings are refinements of the speakers' presentations, based on the criticisms received at the workshop. As a result, 17 authors contributed to these proceedings. We wish to thank them for their diligence and care. The contributions in these proceedings can be partitioned into four categories 1. Access Order and Synchronization 2. Performance 3. Cache Protocols and Architectures 4. Distributed Shared Memory Particular topics on which new ideas and results are presented in these proceedings include: efficient schemes for combining networks, formal specification of shared­ memory models, correctness of trace-driven simulations,synchronization, various coherence protocols, .

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southern California, USA

    Michel Dubois

  • Sequent Computer Systems, USA

    Shreekant Thakkar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors

  • Editors: Michel Dubois, Shreekant Thakkar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3604-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9219-4Published: 31 December 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6601-0Published: 03 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3604-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 329

  • Topics: Processor Architectures

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