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| S.L. Scott, J.R. Goodman, "Performance of Pruning-Cache Directories for Large-Scale Multiprocessors," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 520-534, May, 1993. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/71.224215, author = {S.L. Scott and J.R. Goodman}, title = {Performance of Pruning-Cache Directories for Large-Scale Multiprocessors}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems}, volume = {4}, number = {5}, issn = {1045-9219}, year = {1993}, pages = {520-534}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/71.224215}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems TI - Performance of Pruning-Cache Directories for Large-Scale Multiprocessors IS - 5 SN - 1045-9219 SP520 EP534 EPD - 520-534 A1 - S.L. Scott, A1 - J.R. Goodman, PY - 1993 KW - Index Termspruning-cache directories; large-scale multiprocessors; shared-memory multiprocessors;multilevel inclusion; n-cube topology; bottleneck-free communication; buffer storage;memory architecture; multiprocessor interconnection networks; shared memory systems;storage management VL - 4 JA - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems ER - | |||
Multis, shared-memory multiprocessors that are implemented with single buses andsnooping cache protocols are inherently limited to a small number of processors, and, assystems grow beyond a single bus, the bandwidth requirements of broadcast operationslimit scalability. Hardware support to provide cache coherence without the use ofbroadcast can become very expensive. An approach to maintaining coherence usingapproximate information held in special-purpose caches called pruning-caches thatprovides robust performance over a wide range of workloads is presented. Thepruning-cache approach is compared to the more conventional inclusion cache forproviding multilevel inclusion (MLI) in the cache hierarchy. It is shown thatpruning-caches are more cost-effective and more robust. Using both analysis andsimulation, it is also shown that the k-ary n-cube topology provides scalable,bottleneck-free communication for uniform, point-to-point traffic.
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