Cashmere-2L: Software Coherent Shared Memory on a Clustered Remote-Write Network

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 170-183

  Stets, Robert ^b   Dwarkadas, Sandhya ^b   Hardavellas, Nikolaos ^b   Hunt, Galen ^b   Kontothanassis, Leonidas ^a   Parthasarathy, Srinivasan ^b   Scott, Michael ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

CASHMERE 2L SYSTEM; MEMORY CHANNEL NETWORK; PAGE SIZE COHERENCE BLOCKS; SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS (SMP);

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031542279     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/269005.266675     Document Type: Article

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