galles@mips.com (Mike Galles) (12/28/90)
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}