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BibTeX entry

@Article{Kranz:1993:IMS,
  author =       "David Kranz and Kirk L. Johnson and Anant Agarwal and
                 John Kubiatowicz and Beng-Hong Lim",
  title =        "Integrating message-passing and shared-memory: early
                 experience",
  journal =      j-SIGPLAN,
  volume =       "28",
  number =       "7",
  pages =        "54--63",
  month =        jul,
  year =         "1993",
  CODEN =        "SINODQ",
  ISSN =         "0362-1340 (print), 1523-2867 (print), 1558-1160 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0362-1340",
  bibdate =      "Thu Dec 14 18:49:37 MST 1995",
  abstract =     "A discussion is given on some of the issues involved
                 in implementing a shared-address space programming
                 model on large-scale, distributed-memory
                 multiprocessors. While such a programming model can be
                 implemented on both shared-memory and message-passing
                 architectures, the authors argue that the transparent,
                 coherent caching of global data provided by many
                 shared-memory architectures is of crucial importance.
                 Because message-passing mechanisms are much more
                 efficient than shared-memory loads and stores for
                 certain types of interprocessor communication and
                 synchronization operations, however, the authors argue
                 for building multiprocessors that efficiently support
                 both shared-memory and message-passing mechanisms. The
                 authors describe an architecture, Alewife, that
                 integrates support for shared-memory and
                 message-passing through a simple interface; they expect
                 the compiler and runtime system to cooperate in using
                 appropriate hardware mechanisms that are most efficient
                 for specific operations. They report on both integrated
                 and exclusively shared-memory implementations of the
                 runtime system and two applications.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  affiliation =  "Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA",
  classification = "C5440 (Multiprocessor systems and techniques);
                 C6110P (Parallel programming)",
  confdate =     "19-22 May 1993",
  conflocation = "San Diego, CA, USA",
  confsponsor =  "ACM",
  keywords =     "Alewife; Coherent caching; Compiler;
                 Distributed-memory multiprocessors; Exclusively
                 shared-memory implementations; Global data; Hardware
                 mechanisms; Interprocessor communication;
                 Message-passing architectures; Message-passing
                 mechanisms; Runtime system; Shared-address space
                 programming model; Shared-memory architectures;
                 Shared-memory loads; Synchronization operations",
  thesaurus =    "Message passing; Parallel programming; Shared memory
                 systems",
}

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