Quantitative system performance: computer system analysis using queueing network models
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ISCA '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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Computer Structures: Principles and Examples
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A Characterization of Processor Performance in the vax-11/780
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A two-view approach to constructing user interfaces
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Lightweight remote procedure call
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The Amber system: parallel programming on a network of multiprocessors
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Evaluating the performance of four snooping cache coherency protocols
ISCA '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Design and performance of a coherent cache for parallel logic programming architectures
ISCA '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
The performance implications of thread management alternatives for shared-memory multiprocessors
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C2MP: a cache-coherent, distributed memory multiprocessor-system
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The Performance Implications of Thread Management Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Lightweight remote procedure call
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Performance of the Firefly RPC
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Recoverable Distributed Shared Virtual Memory
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The performance of an object-oriented threads package
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Quartz: a tool for tuning parallel program performance
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Processor scheduling in shared memory multiprocessors
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Multi-model parallel programming in psyche
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Virtual memory primitives for user programs
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Dynamic node reconfiguration in a parallel-distributed environment
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The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
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User-level interprocess communication for shared memory multiprocessors
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Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism
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Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Hardware-assisted replay of multiprocessor programs
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Delayed consistency and its effects on the miss rate of parallel programs
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Simplicity Versus Accuracy in a Model of Cache Coherency Overhead
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Distributed shared memory with versioned objects
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Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Implementing network protocols at user level
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Authentication in the Taos operating system
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Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
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An Efficient and Scalable Approach for Implementing Fault-Tolerant DSM Architectures
IEEE Transactions on Computers
First-class user-level threads
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A process cache memory for tightly coupled multiprocessor systems
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The Performance of Spin Lock Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Error Recovery in Shared Memory Multiprocessors Using Private Caches
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Using Processor-Cache Affinity Information in Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Scheduling
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A Cache Coherency Protocol for Optically Connected Parallel Computer Systems
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The Firefly shared-memory multiprocessor workstation system consists of from one to nine VLSI VAX processors, each with a floating-point accelerator and a cache. The caches are coherent, so that all processors see a consistent view of main memory. The Firefly runs a software system (Topaz) that emulates the Ultrix system call interface, and in addition provides support for multiprocessing through multiple threads of control in a single address space. Communication is provided uniformly through the use of remote procedure call. The authors describe the goals, hardware, software system, and performance of the Firefly, and discuss the extent to which the development has been successful in providing software to take advantage of multiprocessing.