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Modern Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems offer high speed application processing by allowing to use relaxed consistency models, such as processor consistency. Unfortunately, most of the existing coherence protocols implementing relaxed consistency in multiprocessors or loosely couples clusters use write-update strategy which incurs large communication overhead, and therefore is impractical for most distributed applications. This paper presents a new home-based coherence protocol for DSM systems with processor consistency. The protocol uses local invalidation paradigm introducing little overhead. No additional invalidation messages are required; all coherence information is piggybacked to update messages.
This work has been partially supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research grant no. 7T11C 036 21
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Brzeziński, J., Szychowiak, M. (2003). Low Cost Coherence Protocol for DSM Systems with Processor Consistency. In: Yazıcı, A., Şener, C. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2003. ISCIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2869. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39737-3_114
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