Shared memory is an appealing abstraction for parallel programming. It must be
implemented with caches in order to perform well, however and caches require a coherence …

Appropriate solution of the well-known cache coherence problem in shared memory
multiprocessors is one of the key issues in improving the performance and scalability of …

We present and evaluate adaptive, hybrid cache coherence protocols for bus-based, shared-
memory multiprocessors. Such protocols are motivated by the observation that sharing …

This paper presents a software cache coherence scheme that uses virtual memory (VM)
support to maintain cache coherency for shared memory multiprocessors. Traditional VM …

In order to meet the computational needs of the next decade, shared-memory processors
must be scalable. Though single shared-bus architectures have been successful in the past …

Shared memory multiprocessors play an increasingly important role in enterprise and
scientific computing facilities. Remote misses limit the performance of shared memory …

Access latency in large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors is a concern since most (if not
all) memory is one or more hops away through an interconnection network. Providing …

This paper presents an evaluation of the impact of several architectural parameters on the
performance of virtual memory (VM) based cache coherence schemes for shared-memory …

An efficient software cache consistency mechanism for shared-memory multiprocessors that
supports multiple writers and works for cache lines of any size is described. The mechanism …

The performance of shared-memory, cache-coherent multiprocessors is a strong function of
the reference behavior within multiprocessor applications. This research characterizes the …