The shared regions approach to software cache coherence on multiprocessors

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn Part F129677, Issue , 1993, Pages 229-238

  Sandhu, Harjinder S ^a   Gamsa, Benjamin ^a   Zhou, Songnian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SYNCHRONIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

CACHE COHERENCE; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; SHARED DATA; SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR; SOFTWARE CACHE COHERENCE; SOFTWARE CACHES; SYNCHRONIZATION OBJECTS;

CACHE MEMORY; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

NONUNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS; SHARED REGIONS APPROACH; SOFTWARE CACHE COHERENCE;

EID: 0027865831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/155332.155356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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