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Summary: This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation with
grants MIP-9625558, EIA-9971256, and CDA-9623632, two Wisconsin
Romnes Fellowships, and donations from Compaq Computer Corporation,
Intel Corporation, and Sun Microsystems. Milo Martin is supported by an
IBM Graduate Fellowship. Anastassia Ailamaki is supported by the
Anthony C. Klug NCR Fellowship in Databases.
Appears in the proceedings of the
Ninth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-IX),
Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 13-15, 2000.
Timestamp Snooping: An Approach for Extending SMPs
Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Anastassia Ailamaki, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Ross M. Dickson,
Carl J. Mauer, Kevin E. Moore, Manoj Plakal, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet
Abstract
Symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) servers provide superior per-
formance for the commercial workloads that dominate the
Internet. Our simulation results show that over one-third of
cache misses by these applications result in cache-to-cache
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