Publication

Cache Considerations for Programmers of Multiprocessors

Related publications (46)

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

Chip-Level Redundancy in Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors

Babak Falsafi

Distributed shared-memory (DSM) multi- processors provide a scalable hardware platform, but lack the necessary redundancy for mainframe-level reliability and availability. Chip-level redundancy in a DSM server faces a key challenge: the increased latency t ...

2009

Stretching Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Aleksandar Dragojevic

Transactional memory (TM) is an appealing abstraction for programming multi-core systems. Potential target applications for TM, such as business software and video games, are likely to involve complex data structures and large transactions, requiring speci ...

2009

Stretching Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Aleksandar Dragojevic

2008

Mechanisms for store-wait-free multiprocessors

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi

Store misses cause significant delays in shared-memory multiprocessors because of limited store buffering and ordering constraints required for proper synchronization. Today, programmers must choose from a spectrum of memory consistency models that reduce ...

2007

The Granularity of Soft-Error Containment in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors

Babak Falsafi

Concerns over rising soft-error rates in processor logic has led to numerous proposals for error tolerance mechanisms. In this paper, we examine the role of soft-error containment in a shared memory multiprocessor. We study a range of design alternatives b ...

2006

Temporal Streaming of Shared Memory

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi

Coherent read misses in shared-memory multiprocessors account for a substantial fraction of execution time in many important scientific and commercial workloads. We propose Temporal Streaming, to eliminate coherent read misses by streaming data to a proces ...

2005

Store-Ordered Streaming of Shared Memory

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi

Coherence misses in shared-memory multiprocessors account for a substantial fraction of execution time in many important scientific and commercial workloads. Memory streaming provides a promising solution to the coherence miss bottleneck because it improve ...

2005

Evaluating scheduling policies for fine-grain communication protocols on a cluster of SMPs

Babak Falsafi, David Wood

Distributed-memory parallel computers and networks of workstations (NOWs) both rely on efficient communication over increasingly high-speed networks. Software communication protocols are often the performance bottleneck. Several current and proposed parall ...

2005

Memory coherence activity prediction in commercial workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi

Recent research indicates that prediction-based coherence optimizations offer substantial performance improvements for scientific applications in distributed shared memory multiprocessors. Important commercial applications also show sensitivity to coherenc ...

2004

Optimizing traffic in DSM clusters: fine-grain memory caching versus page migration/replication

Babak Falsafi

In this paper we compare and contrast two techniques to improve capacity/conflict miss traffic in CC-NUMA DSM clusters. Page migration/replication optimizes read-write accesses to a page used by a single processor by migrating the page to that processor an ...

2002