Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!galles From: galles@mips.com (Mike Galles) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Data Sharing References (summary) Message-ID: <12411@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 28 Dec 90 13:56:02 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: galles@mips.com (Mike Galles) Lines: 75 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Thanks to all who responded to my inquiry regerding data sharing statistics. As promised, below is a summary of recent articles which deal with data sharing in specific applications on a tightly coupled shared memory architecture. -Mike Galles "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 "Parallel Program Behavioral Study on a Shared Memory Mulitprocessor", Tech. Rep. 1062, Center for Supercomputing R & D, UIUC, Dec. 1990 @PHDTHESIS{eggers:thesis, AUTHOR = {Susan J. Eggers}, TITLE = {Simulation Analysis of Data Sharing in Shared Memory Multiprocessors}, SCHOOL = {University of California at Berkeley}, YEAR = 1989, MONTH = mar} @CONFERENCE{eggers:performance, AUTHOR = {Susan J. Eggers and Randy H. Katz}, TITLE = {The Effect of Sharing on the Cache and Bus Performance of Parallel Programs}, BOOKTITLE = asplos-3, PAGES = {257-270}, YEAR = 1989, MONTH = apr} @CONFERENCE{atum, AUTHOR = {Anant Agarwal and Richard L. Sites and Mark Horowitz}, TITLE = {{ATUM}: A New Technique for Capturing Address Traces Using Microcode}, BOOKTITLE = sigarch86, PAGES = {119-127}, YEAR = 1986, MONTH = jun} @CONFERENCE{atum:multiprocessor, AUTHOR = {Richard L. Sites and Anant Agarwal}, TITLE = {Multiprocessor Cache Analysis Using {ATUM}}, BOOKTITLE = sigarch88, PAGES = {186-195}, YEAR = 1988, MONTH = jun} @CONFERENCE{gupta:cache-invalidation, AUTHOR = {Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Anoop Gupta}, TITLE = {Analysis of Cache Invalidation Patterns in Multiprocessors}, BOOKTITLE = asplos-3, PAGES = {243-256}, YEAR = 1989, MONTH = apr} @CONFERENCE{ibm:memory-access-patterns, AUTHOR = {F. Darema-Rogers and G.F. Pfister and K. So}, TITLE = {Memory Access Patterns of Parallel Scientific Programs}, BOOKTITLE = sigmetrics87, PAGES = {46-58}, YEAR = 1987, MONTH = may} @TECHREPORT{illinois:mem-ref-behavior, AUTHOR = {David J. Lilja and David M. Marcovitz and Pen-Chung Yew}, TITLE = {Memory Referencing Behavior and a Cache Performance Metric in a Shared Memory Multiprocessor}, INSTITUTION = {University of Illinois}, NUMBER = {CSRD Rpt. No. 838}, YEAR = 1989, MONTH = jan}