ASPLOS-VII, 1996: Cambridge, Massachusetts

ASPLOS-VII Proceedings - Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1-5, 1996. SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 24(Special Issue October 1996), SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 30(5) 1996, SIGPLAN Notices 31(9) 1996

Multiprocessors

Kunle Olukotun, Basem A. Nayfeh, Lance Hammond, Kenneth G. Wilson, Kunyung Chang: The Case for a Single-Chip Multiprocessor. 2-11 BibTeX
Vijay S. Pai, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Sarita V. Adve, Tracy Harton: An Evaluation of Memory Consistency Models for Shared-Memory Systems with ILP Processors. 12-23 BibTeX

More Multiprocessors

Steven L. Scott: Synchronization and Communication in the T3E Multiprocessor. 26-36 BibTeX
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Klaus E. Schauser, Chris J. Scheiman, Randolph Y. Wang, David E. Culler, Katherine A. Yelick: Evaluation of Architectural Support for Global Address-Based Communication in Large-Scale Parallel Machines. 37-48 BibTeX

Threads

Dirk Grunwald, Richard Neves: Whole-Program Optimization for Time and Space Efficient Threads. 50-59 BibTeX
James Philbin, Jan Edler, Otto J. Anshus, Craig C. Douglas, Kai Li: Thread Scheduling for Cache Locality. 60-71 BibTeX

File and Storage Systems

Peter M. Chen, Wee Teck Ng, Subhachandra Chandra, Christopher M. Aycock, Gurushankar Rajamani, David E. Lowell: The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes. 74-83 BibTeX
Edward K. Lee, Chandramohan A. Thekkath: Petal: Distributed Virtual Disks. 84-92 BibTeX

Memory Requirements

Kathryn S. McKinley, Olivier Temam: A Quantitative Analysis of Loop Nest Locality. 94-104 BibTeX
Andrew S. Huang, John Paul Shen: The Intrinsic Bandwidth Requirements of Ordinary Programs. 105-114 BibTeX

Value and Branch Prediction

André Seznec, Stéphan Jourdan, Pascal Sainrat, Pierre Michaud: Multiple-Block Ahead Branch Predictors. 116-127 BibTeX
I-Cheng K. Chen, John T. Coffey, Trevor N. Mudge: Analysis of Branch Prediction Via Data Compression. 128-137 BibTeX
Mikko H. Lipasti, Christopher B. Wilkerson, John Paul Shen: Value Locality and Load Value Prediction. 138-147 BibTeX

Potpourri

Theodore H. Romer, Dennis Lee, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Alec Wolman, Wayne A. Wong, Jean-Loup Baer, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy: The Structure and Performance of Interpreters. 150-159 BibTeX
Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir: Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation. 160-170 BibTeX

Distributed Shared Memory

Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramohan A. Thekkath: Shasta: A Low Overhead, Software-Only Approach for Supporting Fine-Grain Shared Memory. 174-185 BibTeX
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: An Integrated Compile-Time/Run-Time Software Distributed Shared Memory System. 186-197 BibTeX
Ricardo Bianchini, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Raquel Pinto, M. De Maria, M. Abud, Claudio Luis de Amorim: Hiding Communication Latency and Coherence Overhead in Software DSMs. 198-209 BibTeX
Andrew Erlichson, Neal Nuckolls, Greg Chesson, John L. Hennessy: SoftFLASH: Analyzing the Performance of Clustered Distributed Virtual Shared Memory. 210-220 BibTeX

Compiler Optimizations

Chi-Keung Luk, Todd C. Mowry: Compiler-Based Prefetching for Recursive Data Structures. 222-233 BibTeX
Mazen A. R. Saghir, Paul Chow, Corinna G. Lee: Exploiting Dual Data-Memory Banks in Digital Signal Processors. 234-243 BibTeX
Edouard Bugnion, Jennifer-Ann M. Anderson, Todd C. Mowry, Mendel Rosenblum, Monica S. Lam: Compiler-Directed Page Coloring for Multiprocessors. 244-255 BibTeX

Caches and Memory Systems

Hervé A. Jamrozik, Michael J. Feeley, Geoffrey M. Voelker, James Evans II, Anna R. Karlin, Henry M. Levy, Mary K. Vernon: Reducing Network Latency Using Subpages in a Global Memory Environment. 258-267 BibTeX
Jih-Kwon Peir, Windsor W. Hsu, Honesty C. Young, Shauchi Ong: Improving Cache Performance with Balanced Tag and Data Paths. 268-278 BibTeX
Ben Verghese, Scott Devine, Anoop Gupta, Mendel Rosenblum: Operating System Support for Improving Data Locality on CC-NUMA Compute Servers. 279-289 BibTeX