To maintain coherence in conventional shared-memory multiprocessor systems, processors
first check other processors' caches before obtaining data from memory. This coherence …

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 …

It has been shown that many requests miss in all remote nodes in shared memory
multiprocessors. We are motivated by the observation that this behavior extends to much …

Cache-coherent shared-memory multiprocessors have wide-ranging applications, from
commercial transaction processing and database services to large-scale scientific …

Recent research shows that the occupancy of the coherence controllers is a major
performance bottleneck for distributed cache coherent shared memory multiprocessors. A …

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

Recent research shows that the occupancy of the coherence controllers is a major
performance bottleneck for distributed cache coherent shared memory multiprocessors. In …

Maintaining coherence in large-scale chip multiprocessors (CMPs) embodies tremendous
design trade-offs in meeting the area, energy and performance requirements. Sparse …

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

Although snoop-based coherence protocols provide fast cache-to-cache transfers with a
simple and robust coherence mechanism, scaling the protocols has been difficult due to the …