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An evaluation of directory schemes for cache coherence
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Memory coherence in shared virtual memory systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
NUMA policies and their relation to memory architecture
ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Experimental comparison of memory management policies for NUMA multiprocessors
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Implementation and performance of Munin
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The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel: virtual prototyping of parallel computers
SIGMETRICS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Evaluating the memory overhead required for COMA architectures
ISCA '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Tempest and typhoon: user-level shared memory
ISCA '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture
The directory-based cache coherence protocol for the DASH multiprocessor
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SPLASH: Stanford parallel applications for shared-memory
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Latency Analyses of CC-NUMA and CC-COMA Rings
ICPP '94 Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel Processing - Volume 01
A comprehensive bibliography of distributed shared memory
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
COMA: an opportunity for building fault-tolerant scalable shared memory multiprocessors
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Missing the memory wall: the case for processor/memory integration
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Reactive NUMA: a design for unifying S-COMA and CC-NUMA
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Performance experiences on Sun's Wildfire prototype
SC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Mapping irregular applications to DIVA, a PIM-based data-intensive architecture
SC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
An Efficient and Scalable Approach for Implementing Fault-Tolerant DSM Architectures
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Hardware prediction for data coherency of scientific codes on DSM
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Exploiting Network Locality for CC-NUMA Multiprocessors
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The architecture of the DIVA processing-in-memory chip
ICS '02 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Supercomputing
Cache-Only Memory Architectures
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ICPP '97 Proceedings of the international Conference on Parallel Processing
A Study of the Efficiency of Shared Attraction Memories in Cluster-Based COMA Multiprocessors
IPPS '97 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Memory Management in a PIM-Based Architecture
IMS '00 Revised Papers from the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Memory Systems
The Illinois Aggressive Coma Multiprocessor project (I-ACOMA)
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Bus-based COMA-reducing traffic in shared-bus multiprocessors
HPCA '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors
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Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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We present design details and some initial performance results of a novel scalable shared memory multiprocessor architecture. This architecture features the automatic data migration and replication capabilities of cache-only memory architecture (COMA) machines, without the accompanying hardware complexity. A software layer manages cache space allocation at a page-granularity-similarly to distributed virtual shared memory (DVSM) systems, leaving simpler hardware to maintain shared memory coherence at a cache line granularity. By reducing the hardware complexity, the machine cost and development time are reduced. We call the resulting hybrid hardware and software multiprocessor architecture Simple COMA. Preliminary results indicate that the performance of Simple COMA is comparable to that of more complex contemporary all hardware designs.