Esteve García, Albert; Ros Bardisa, Alberto; Gómez Requena, María Engracia; Robles Martínez, Antonio; Duato Marín, José Francisco(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-03)
Most of the data referenced by sequential and parallel applications running in current chip multiprocessors are referenced by a single thread, i.e., private. Recent proposals leverage this observation to improve many aspects ...
Sáez Barona, Sergio; Real Sáez, Jorge Vicente; Crespo Lorente, Alfons(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015-04)
Ada 2012 has introduced mechanisms for exploiting multiprocessor platforms at the application level. These include task affinity control and definition of dispatching domains. However, there are other executable entities ...
Cuesta Sáez, Blas Antonio; Ros Bardisa, Alberto; Gómez Requena, María Engracia; Robles Martínez, Antonio; Duato Marín, José Francisco(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-03)
A key aspect in the design of efficient multiprocessor systems is the cache coherence protocol. Although directory-based protocols constitute the most scalable approach, the limited size of the directory caches together ...