Matt Chung

Tag: cache coherence

  • Distributed Shared Memory (Part 1 of 2) Notes

    Distributed Shared Memory (Part 1 of 2) Notes

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    Introduction Summary Main question is this: can we make a cluster look like a shared memory machine Cluster as a parallel machine (sequential program) Summary One strategy is to not write explicit parallel programs and instead use language assisted features (like pragma) that signal to the compiler that this section be optimized. But, there are…

  • Shared Memory Machine Model (notes)

    Shared Memory Machine Model (notes)

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    You need to take away the following two themes for shared memory machine model: Difference and relationship between cache coherence (dealt with in hardware) and cache consistency (handled by the operating system) The different memory machine models (e.g. dance hall, symmetric multiprocessing, and distributed shared memory architecture) Cache coherence is the promise delivered by the…