Cooperative shared memory: software and hardware for scalable multiprocessor

  • Authors:
  • Mark D. Hill;James R. Larus;Steven K. Reinhardt;David A. Wood

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We believe the absence of massively-parallel, shared-memory machines follows from the lack of a shared-memory programming performance model that can inform programmers of the cost of operations (so they can avoid expensive ones) and can tell hardware designers which cases are common (so they can build simple hardware to optimize them). Cooperative shared memory, our approach to shared-memory design, addresses this problem.Our initial implementation of cooperative shared memory uses a simple programming model, called Check-In / Check-Out (CICO), in conjunction with even simpler hardware, called Dir1SW is a minimal director protocol that adds little complexity to message-passing hardware, but efficiently supports programs written within the CICO model.