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Multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) with distributed shared memory and caches are flexible when it comes to inter-processor communication but require an efficient memory consistency and cache coherency solution. In this paper we present a novel consistency model, streaming consistency, for the streaming domain in which tasks communicate through circular buffers. The model allows more reorder...

The integration of many cores per chip will lead to inefficiency of traditional multi-processor techniques. In particular, a hardware cache coherency protocol includes performance and hardware overhead, so that for a growing number of cores the coherence wall problem will become more serious. The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is a recent research processor of a Cluster-on-Chip architecture, ...

S U M M A R Y We develop a new technique for monitoring temporal changes in fault zone environments based on cross-correlation of earthquake waveforms recorded by pairs of stations. The method is applied to waveforms of∼10 000 earthquakes observed during 100 d around the 1999M 7.1 Duzce mainshock by a station located in the core damage zone of the North Anatolian Fault and a nearby station. To ...

Scalable shared memory multiprocessors commonly employ replication and the associated coherency maintenance of memory blocks, but diier in the granularity from ne-grain (cache-coherent multiproces-sors) to coarse-grain (page-based distributed shared memory systems). Regardless of the size of coherency blocks, attaining good performance may depend on the number of copies staying small. Previous ...

If each phase has an identical crystal structure and small misfit in the lattice parameters in a binary-phase crystalline system, coherent phase boundaries usually form during separation. Although there have been numerous studies on the effect of coherency elastic energy, no attempt has been made to demonstrate how the phase-separation behaviour varies when multiple interfaces meet at a junctio...

A theoretical investigation of the effects of elastic coherency strain on the thermodynamics, kinetics, and morphology of intercalation in single LiFePO(4) nanoparticles yields new insights into this important battery material. Anisotropic elastic stiffness and misfit strains lead to the unexpected prediction that low-energy phase boundaries occur along {101} planes, while conflicting reports o...

A major factor in determining the effectiveness of caching in wireless networks is the cache coherency scheme which maintains consistency between mobile stations (MSs) and the server. Since the wireless channel is inherently a broadcast medium, an appropriate cache coherency scheme is one in which the server broadcasts cache invalidation reports (IRs) that contain data update information. Howev...

In the context of non-Gaussian polarimetric clutter models, this paper presents an application of the recent advances in the field of Spherically Invariant Random Vectors (SIRV) modelling for coherency matrix estimation in heterogeneous clutter. The complete description of the POLSAR data set is achieved by estimating the span and the normalized coherency independently. The normalized coherency...

Moving plaid patterns composed of component gratings that differ in luminance contrast tend not to cohere perceptually. Plaid patterns configured to mimic one occlusive grating overlying another also fail to cohere. We hypothesized that plaids constructed of components with different luminance contrasts fail to cohere because these components are interpreted as occlusive surfaces lying in diffe...