ASPLOS-VI, 1994: San Jose, California

ASPLOS-VI Proceedings - Sixth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, San Jose, California, October 4-7, 1994. SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 22(Special Issue October 1994), SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 28(5) 1994, and SIGPLAN Notices 29(11) 1994

Operating System Issues

Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Henry M. Levy, Edward D. Lazowska: Separating Data and Control Transfer in Distributed Operating Systems. 2-11 BibTeX
Rohit Chandra, Scott Devine, Ben Verghese, Anoop Gupta, Mendel Rosenblum: Scheduling and Page Migration for Multiprocessor Compute Servers. 12-24 BibTeX
Beng-Hong Lim, Anant Agarwal: Reactive Synchronization Algorithms for Multiprocessors. 25-35 BibTeX

Communication in Parallel Machines

John Heinlein, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Scott Dresser, Anoop Gupta: Integration of Message Passing and Shared Memory in the Stanford FLASH Multiprocessor. 38-50 BibTeX
Vijay Karamcheti, Andrew A. Chien: Software Overhead in Messaging Layers: Where Does the Time Go? 51-60 BibTeX
Satish Chandra, James R. Larus, Anne Rogers: Where is Time Spent in Message-Passing and Shared-Memory Programs? 61-73 BibTeX

Hardware Topics

William J. Schmidt, Kelvin D. Nilsen: Performance of a Hardware-Assisted Real-Time Garbage Collector. 76-85 BibTeX
Michael Wu, Willy Zwaenepoel: eNVy: A Non-Volatile, Main Memory Storage System. 86-97 BibTeX
Michael Upton, Thomas Huff, Trevor N. Mudge, Richard B. Brown: Resource Allocation in a High Clock Rate Microprocessor. 98-109 BibTeX
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Henry M. Levy: Hardware and Software Support for Efficient Exception Handling. 110-119 BibTeX

Instrumentation and Mearsurement

Pramod V. Argade, David K. Charles, Craig Taylor: A Technique for Monitoring Run-Time Dynamics of an Operating System and a Microprocessor Executing User Applications. 122-131 BibTeX
Richard Uhlig, David Nagle, Trevor N. Mudge, Stuart Sechrest: Trap-driven Simulation with Tapeworm II. 132-144 BibTeX
Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard, Colette M. Donnelly, Bret R. Olszewski: Contrasting Characteristics and Cache Performance of Technical and Multi-User Commercial Workloads. 145-156 BibTeX

Uniprocessor Performance Issues

Brian N. Bershad, Dennis Lee, Theodore H. Romer, J. Bradley Chen: Avoiding Conflict Misses Dynamically in Large Direct-Mapped Caches. 158-170 BibTeX
Madhusudhan Talluri, Mark D. Hill: Surpassing the TLB Performance of Superpages with Less Operating System Support. 171-182 BibTeX
David M. Gallagher, William Y. Chen, Scott A. Mahlke, John C. Gyllenhaal, Wen-mei W. Hwu: Dynamic Memory Disambiguation Using the Memory Conflict Buffer. 183-193 BibTeX

Language and Architecture

Kenichi Hayashi, Tsunehisa Doi, Takeshi Horie, Yoichi Koyanagi, Osamu Shiraki, Nobutaka Imamura, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Hiroaki Ishihata, Tatsuya Shindo: AP1000+: Architectural Support of PUT/GET Interface for Parallelizing Compiler. 196-207 BibTeX
James R. Larus, Brad Richards, Guhan Viswanathan: LCM: Memory System Support for Parallel Language Implementation. 208-218 BibTeX
Steven Cameron Woo, Jaswinder Pal Singh, John L. Hennessy: The Performance Advantages of Integrating Block Data Trabsfer in Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors. 219-229 BibTeX

Code Transformation

Cliff Young, Michael D. Smith: Improving the Accuracy of Static Branch Prediction Using Branch Correlation. 232-241 BibTeX
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald: Reducing Branch Costs via Branch Alignment. 242-251 BibTeX
Steve Carr, Kathryn S. McKinley, Chau-Wen Tseng: Compiler Optimizations for Improving Data Locality. 252-262 BibTeX
Dawson R. Engler, Todd A. Proebsting: DCG: An Efficient, Retargetable Dynamic Code Generation System. 263-272 BibTeX

Memory Access in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors

Mark Heinrich, Jeffrey Kuskin, David Ofelt, John Heinlein, Joel Baxter, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Richard Simoni, Kourosh Gharachorloo, David Nakahira, Mark Horowitz, Anoop Gupta, Mendel Rosenblum, John L. Hennessy: The Performance Impact of Flexibility in the Stanford FLASH Multiprocessor. 274-285 BibTeX
Jonas Skeppstedt, Per Stenström: Simple Compiler Algorithms to Reduce Ownership Operhead in Cache Coherence Protocols. 286-296 BibTeX
Ioannis Schoinas, Babak Falsafi, Alvin R. Lebeck, Steven K. Reinhardt, James R. Larus, David A. Wood: Fine-grain Access Control for Distributed Shared Memory. 297-306 BibTeX

Multithreading

James Laudon, Anoop Gupta, Mark Horowitz: Interleaving: A Multithreading Technique Targeting Multiprocessors and Workstations. 308-318 BibTeX
Nicholas P. Carter, Stephen W. Keckler, William J. Dally: Hardware Support for Fast Capability-based Addressing. 319-327 BibTeX
Radhika Thekkath, Susan J. Eggers: The Effectiveness of Multiple Hardware Contexts. 328-337 BibTeX