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HPCA
1996
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
PDCAT
2005
Springer
16 years 22 hour ago
A New Algorithm to Solve Synchronous Consensus for Dependent Failures
Fault tolerant algorithms are often designed under the t-out-of-n assumption, which is based on the assumption that all processes or components fail independently with equal proba...
Jun Wang, Min Song
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
NetCache: A Network/Cache Hybrid for Multiprocessors
In this paper we propose the use of an optical network not only as the communication medium, but also as a system-wide cache for the shared data in a multiprocessor. More specifica...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Origin 2000 Design Enhancements for Communication Intensive Applications
The SGI Origin 2000 is designedto support a wide range of applications and has low local and remote memory latencies. However, it often has a high ratio of remote to local misses....
Gheith A. Abandah, Edward S. Davidson
EUROPAR
1997
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Prefetching and Multithreading Performance in Bus-Based Multiprocessors with Petri Nets
The large latency of memory accesses is a major obstacle in obtaining high processor utilization in large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Access to remote memory is likely to ...
Edward D. Moreno, Sergio Takeo Kofuji, Marcelo H. ...