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Keith Farkas, Zvonko G. Vranesic, and Michael Stumm,
Scalable cache consistency for hierarchically-structured multiprocessors",
Journal of Supercomputing, 8(4), December, 1995, pp. 345–369.

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Abstract:

This paper presents a new cache consistency scheme for hierarchically structured shared-memory multiprocessors. The scheme is simple, fast and efficient, and it does not require a large amount of state information to be maintained. The scheme exploits the broadcast capability of these systems, but limits the extent of the broadcasts by means of a novel filtering mechanism. As a specific example, it is shown how the proposed cache consistency scheme can be implemented on the Hector multiprocessor architecture. Using trace-driven simulations, we demonstrate that the scheme is scalable and performs well for common applications.

Keywords:

Cache consistency, shared-memory multiprocessors, hierarchically structured multiprocessors, limited broadcast

Reference Info:

DOI: 10.1007/BF01901614
ISSN: 0920-8542 1573-0484
OCLC: 4666173139

BibTeX:

@article(Farkas-JSC95,
    author = {Keith Farkas and Zvonko G. Vranesic and Michael Stumm},
    title = {Scalable cache consistency for hierarchically-structured multiprocessors},
    volume = {8},
    number = {4},
    month = {December},
    year = {1995},
    pages = {345-369},
    doi = {10.1007/BF01901614},
    issn = {0920-8542 1573-0484},
    keywords = {Cache consistency, shared-memory multiprocessors, hierarchically structured multiprocessors, limited broadcast}
)