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Stanford DASH multiprocessor: The hardware and software approach

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General DASH papers

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DASH Coherence Protocol and Directory Structure

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Architecture tools

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Latency hiding and tolerating techniques

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Other architectural studies

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Operating systems

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Programming languages

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Compilers

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Performance tools

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Applications

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  2. Larry Soule and Anoop Gupta. An Evaluation of Chandy-Misra-Bryant Algorithm for Digital Logic Simulation. 1992. To appear in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

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  3. Jaswinder Pal Singh, Chris Holt, Takashi Totsuka, Anoop Gupta and John Hennessy. Load Balancing and Data Locality in Hierarchical N-Body Methods. Technical Report CSL-TR-92-505, Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, February, 1992.

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  6. Edward Rothberg and Anoop Gupta. The Performance Impact of Data Reuse in Parallel Dense Cholesky Factorization. Technical Report STAN-CS-92-1401, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, January, 1992.

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Gupta, A. (1992). Stanford DASH multiprocessor: The hardware and software approach. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_125

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