Shasta: A low overhead, software-only approach for supporting fine-grain shared memory

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 174-185

  Scales, Daniel J ^a   Gharachorloo, Kourosh ^a   Thekkath, Chandramohan A ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 0042462715     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/248208.237179     Document Type: Article

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