Modelling and programming in an object-oriented concurrent language ABCL/1
Object-oriented concurrent programming
Tolerating latency through software-controlled prefetching in shared-memory multiprocessors
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on shared-memory multiprocessors
Implementation and performance of Munin
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A rapid hierarchical radiosity algorithm
Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Implementing an irregular application on a distributed memory multiprocessor
PPOPP '93 Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Adaptive cache coherency for detecting migratory shared data
ISCA '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on computer architecture
CRL: high-performance all-software distributed shared memory
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A comparison of architectural support for messaging in the TMC CM-5 and the Cray T3D
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
The Nexus approach to integrating multithreading and communication
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multithreading for multiprocessors
ICC++-AC++ Dialect for High Performance Parallel Computing
ISOTAS '96 Proceedings of the Second JSSST International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software
Tempest: a substrate for portable parallel programs
COMPCON '95 Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference
The concert system--compiler and runtime support for efficient, fine-grained concurrent object-oriented programs
TreadMarks: distributed shared memory on standard workstations and operating systems
WTEC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
The design and evaluation of a shared object system for distributed memory machines
OSDI '94 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Supporting High Level Programming with High Performance: The Illinois Concert System
HIPS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Workshop on High-Level Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS '97)
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Software distributed shared memory (DSM) techniques, while effective on applications with coarse-grained sharing, yield poor performance for the fine-grained sharing encountered in applications increasingly relying on sophisticated adaptive and hierarchical algorithms. Such applications exhibit irregular communication patterns unsynchronized with computation, incurring large overheads for synchronous (request-reply) DSM protocols that require responsive processing of coherence messages. We describe a new DSM framework, View Caching, that addresses this problem by utilizing application knowledge of data access semantics to enable the construction of low-overhead, asynchronous coherence protocols. Experiments on the Cray T3D show that view caching enables efficient execution of fine-grained irregular applications, reducing both coherence overheads and idle time to improve performance by up to 35% over a weakly-consistent DSM implementation.