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From: galles@mips.com (Mike Galles)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Data Sharing Statistics
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Date: 18 Dec 90 13:52:47 GMT
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For purposes of protocol and design evaluation, the amount of data sharing
which occurs between various nodes in a shared memory system is a very
important statistic.  It is also important to know whether data that is
shared is more often clean or dirty.  After searching for references on 
this topic, I found only two articles which directly addressed these issues:


"A Characterization of Sharing in Parallel Programs and Its Application
to Coherency Protocol Evaluation", Eggers & Katz (UCB), 1988 IEEE


"Memory-Reference Characteristics of Multiprocessor Applications under MACH",
Agarwal & Gupta, 1988 Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics


I would like more data on this topic, particularly more recent articles
addressing memory reference patterns for particular applications.  If you
know of any articles which fit this description, please mail me the title
and author(s).  If the response is good, I will post a summary of the
references I receive.


Thanks,

Mike Galles
galles@mips.com