Contention is no obstacle to shared-memory multiprocessing

  • Authors:
  • Randall Rettberg;Robert Thomas

  • Affiliations:
  • BBN Advanced Computers, Cambridge, MA;BBN Advanced Computers, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Special issue on parallelism
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Contention in large-scale shared-memory systems is less of a concern than generally believed. Through careful engineering of a parallel system, the effects of contention can be controlled.