ASPLOS-III, 1989: Boston, Massachusetts

ASPLOS-III Proceedings - Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, April 3-6, 1989. ACM Press, ISBN 0-89791-300-0, SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 17(2), SIGOPS Operating System Review 23(Special Issue April 1989), and SIGPLAN Notices 24(Special Issue May 1989)

Wide Instruction Word Machines

Robert Cohn, Thomas R. Gross, Monica S. Lam, P. S. Tseng: Architecture and Compiler Tradeoffs for a Long Instruction Word Microprocessor. 2-14 BibTeX
Gurindar S. Sohi, Sriram Vajapeyam: Tradeoffs in Instruction Format Design for Horizontal Architectures. 15-25 BibTeX
James C. Dehnert, Peter Y.-T. Hsu, Joseph P. Bratt: Overlapped Loop Support in the Cydra 5. 26-38 BibTeX

Synchronization

Forbes J. Burkowski, Gordon V. Cormack, G. D. P. Dueck: Architectural Support for Synchronous Task Communication. 40-53 BibTeX
Rajiv Gupta: The Fuzzy Barrier: A Mechanism for High Speed Synchronization of Processors. 54-63 BibTeX
James R. Goodman, Mary K. Vernon, Philip J. Woest: Efficent Synchronization Primitives for Large-Scale Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors. 64-75 BibTeX

Support for Debugging

John M. Mellor-Crummey, Thomas J. LeBlanc: A Software Instruction Counter. 78-86 BibTeX
Ziya Aral, Ilya Gertner, Greg Schaffer: Efficient Debugging Primitives for Multiprocessors. 87-95 BibTeX
Mark E. Staknis: Sheaved Memory: Architectural Support for State Saving and Restoration in Paged Systems. 96-102 BibTeX

Operating System Issues

Mark A. Holliday: Reference History, Page Size, and Migration Daemons in Local/Remote Architectures. 104-112 BibTeX
David L. Black, Richard F. Rashid, David B. Golub, Charles R. Hill, Robert V. Baron: Translation Lookaside Buffer Consistency: A Software Approach. 113-122 BibTeX
Garth A. Gibson, Lisa Hellerstein, Richard M. Karp, Randy H. Katz, David A. Patterson: Failure Correction Techniques for Large Disk Arrays. 123-132 BibTeX

Instruction Sets

Norman P. Jouppi, Jonathan Bertoni, David W. Wall: A Unified Vector/Scalar Floating-Point Architecture. 134-143 BibTeX
Hans Mulder: Data Buffering: Run-Time Versus Compile-Time Support. 144-151 BibTeX
Thomas L. Adams, Richard E. Zimmerman: An Analysis of 8086 Instruction Set Usage in MS DOS Programs. 152-160 BibTeX

Compiler/Language Issues

Joachim Roos: A Real-Time Support Processor for Ada Tasking. 162-171 BibTeX
Steven R. Vegdahl, Uwe F. Pleban: The Run-Time Environment for Screme, A Scheme Implementation on the 88000. 172-182 BibTeX
Scott McFarling: Program Optimization for Instruction Caches. 183-191 BibTeX

Miscellaneous Topics

Paul A. Karger: Using Registers to Optimize Cross-Domain Call Performance. 194-204 BibTeX
Emmanuel A. Arnould, Francois J. Bitz, Eric C. Cooper, H. T. Kung, Robert D. Sansom, Peter Steenkiste: The Design of Nectar: A Network Backplane for Heterogeneous Multicomputers. 205-216 BibTeX
Sergio A. Delgado-Rannauro, T. J. Reynolds: A Message Driven Or-Parallel Machine. 217-228 BibTeX

Caching

Susan S. Owicki, Anant Agarwal: Evaluating the Performance of Software Cache Coherence. 230-242 BibTeX
Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Anoop Gupta: Analysis of Cache Invalidation Patterns in Multiprocessors. 243-256 BibTeX
Susan J. Eggers, Randy H. Katz: The Effect of Sharing on the Cache and Bus Performance of Parallel Programs. 257-270 BibTeX

Instruction Set Parallelism

Norman P. Jouppi, David W. Wall: Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Machines. 272-282 BibTeX
William J. Dally: Micro-Optimization of Floating Point Operations. 283-289 BibTeX
Michael D. Smith, Mike Johnson, Mark Horowitz: Limits on Multiple Instruction Issue. 290-302 BibTeX