On memory models and cache management for shared-memory multiprocessors

Shared Regions: A strategy for efficient cache management in shared-memory multiprocessors

Data Merging for Shared Memory Multiprocessors

Cache coherence, delayed consistency, shared memory multiprocessors We describe an e cient software cache consistency mechanism for shared memory multiprocessors that supports multiple writers and works for cache lines of any size. Our mechanism relies on the fact that, for a correct program, only the global memory needs a consistent view of the shared data between synchronization points. Our d...

Software Caching on Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors

Programmers have always been concerned with data distribution and remote memory access costs on shared-memory multiprocessors that lack coherent caches, like the BBN Butterry. Recently memory latency has become an important issue on cache-coherent multiprocessors, where dramatic improvements in microprocessor performance have increased the relative cost of cache misses and coherency transaction...

Parallel Cache Management of a RDBMS 1

Increasing requirements such as higher transaction rates, shorter response times etc., make it necessary to parallelize existing database management systems and to implement them on multiprocessors. Shared memory multiprocessors are not arbitrarily scalable, and thus do not meet future requirements. Therefore, it makes sense to implement databases on large-scale distributed memory multicomputer...

A performance evaluation of cache injection in bus-based shared memory multiprocessors

Bus-based shared memory multiprocessors with private caches and snooping write-invalidate cache coherence protocols are dominant form of smallto medium-scale parallel machines today. In these systems the high memory latency poses the major hurdle in achieving high performance. One way to cope with this problem is to use various techniques for tolerating high memory latency. Software-controlled ...