Title :
Investigating weak memories using Maya
Author :
Agrawal, Divyakant ; Choy, Manhoi ; Leong, Hong Va ; Singh, Ambuj K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Maya is a platform for investigating the impact of different memory coherence protocols on parallel architectures. We present the implementations of several weak memory protocols, together with some new primitives dedicated to weak memories using Maya. The results of some user applications are summarized and the impact of weak memories on the efficiency of these parallel programs is discussed
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; multiprocessing programs; parallel programming; program testing; protocols; shared memory systems; storage management; Maya; distributed shared memory; memory coherence protocols; memory consistency; parallel architectures; parallel programming; parallel programs; weak memories; weak memory protocols; Access protocols; Computer science; Costs; Delay; Hardware; Laboratories; Parallel architectures; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Random access memory;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6395-2
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1994.340252
