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....
Traditionally transactions have been singlethreaded. In such an environment the thread terminating the transaction is, by definition, the thread which performed the work. Therefor...
Steve J. Caughey, Mark C. Little, Santosh K. Shriv...
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...
This paper presents a detailed comparison of the relative importance of allowing concurrent writers versus the choice of the underlying consistency model. Our comparison is based ...
The notion of lambda-Grids posits plentiful collections of computing and storage resources richly interconnected by dedicated dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical...