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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introductory Readings | |
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| How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer that Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs (IEEE Transactions on Computers, September 1979) | |
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| Synchronization, Coherence, and Event Ordering in Multiprocessors (Computer, February 1988) | |
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| Cache Coherence in Large-Scale Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: Issues and Comparisons (ACM Computing Surveys, September 1993) | |
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| Software Cache Consistency in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: A Survey of Approaches and Performance Evaluation Studies | |
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| Static Software Cache Coherence Schemes | |
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| Compiler-Directed Cache Management in Multiprocessors (Computer, June 1990) | |
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| RP3 Processor-Memory Element (Proceedings of the 1985 International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1985) | |
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| A Compiler-Assisted Cache Coherence Solution for Multiprocessors (Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1986) | |
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| A Cache Coherence Scheme With Fast Selective Invalidation (Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1988) | |
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| Automatic Management of Programmable Caches (Proceedings of the 1988 International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1988) | |
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| A Version Control Approach to Cache Coherence (Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing '89, 1989) | |
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| Design and Analysis of a Scalable Cache Coherence Scheme Based on Clocks and Timestamps (IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, January 1992) | |
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| A Generational Algorithm to Multiprocessor Cache Coherence (Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Volume I, 1993) | |
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| Cache Coherence Using Local Knowledge (Proceedings of Supercomputing '93, 1993) | |
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| Dynamic Software Cache Coherence Schemes | |
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| Software-Controlled Caches in the VMP Multiprocessor (Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1986) | |
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| CPU Cache Consistency with Software Support and Using "One Time Identifiers" (Proceedings of the Pacific Computer Communication Symposium, 1985) | |
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| An Approach to Dynamic Software Cache Consistency Maintenance Based on Conditional Invalidation (Proceedings of the 25th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1992) | |
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| Adaptive Software Cache Management for Distributed Shared Memory Architectures (Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1990) | |
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| Techniques for Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Cache Memories and Cache Coherence Maintenance Mechanisms | |
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| Analysis of Multiprocessors with Private Cache Memories (IEEE Transactions on Computers, April 1982) | |
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| Effectiveness of Private Caches in Multiprocessor Systems with Parallel-Pipelined Memories (IEEE Transactions on Computers, January 1983) | |
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| On the Validity of Trace-Driven Simulation for Multiprocessors (Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1991) | |
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| Multiprocessor Cache Simulation Using Hardware Collected Address Traces (Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Volume 1, 1990) | |
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| Cache Invalidation Patterns in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors (IEEE Transactions on Computers, July 1992 Correction in Volume 41, No. 12) | |
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| Benchmark Characterization for Experimental System Evaluation (Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Volume 1, 1990) | |
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| A Model of Workloads and Its Use in Miss-Rate Prediction for Fully Associative Caches (IEEE Transactions on Computers, July 1992) | |
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| Performance Evaluation Studies of Software Coherence Schemes | |
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| A Performance Comparison of Directory-Based and Timestamp-Based Cache Coherence Schemes (Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Volume I, 1990) | |
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| Evaluating the Performance of Software Cache Coherence (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 1989) | |
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| Comparison of Hardware and Software Cache Coherence Schemes (Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1991) | |
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| About the Authors | |