Title :
The Execution Migration Machine: Directoryless Shared-Memory Architecture
Author :
Keun Sup Shim ; Lis, Mieszko ; Khan, Omer ; Devadas, Srinivas
Abstract :
For certain applications involving chip multiprocessors with more than 16 cores, a directoryless architecture with fine-grained and partial-context thread migration can outperform directory-based coherence, providing lighter on-chip traffic and reduced verification complexity.
Keywords :
microprocessor chips; shared memory systems; chip multiprocessors; directoryless shared-memory architecture; execution migration machine; fine-grained thread migration; partial-context thread migration; verification complexity; Cache memory; Distributed databases; Instruction sets; Parallel processing; Program processors; Protocols; Software architecture; System-on-chip; data locality; distributed caches; hardware; parallel architectures; shared memory; thread migration;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2015.263
