Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: rlarowe@chpc.org (Rick LaRowe)
Subject: Technical Report on Galactica Net
Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 20:10:52 GMT

Announcing the availability of the following technical report:

              Update Propagation in the Galactica Net 
               Distributed Shared Memory Architecture
 
		  A. Wilson, R. LaRowe, R. Ionta, 
	    R. Valentino, B. Hu, P. Breton, and P. Lau

			 CHPC TR 93-007

			     Abstract

      Galactica Net employs a unique approach to supporting 
      shared memory coherence in a distributed computing system. 
      The approach is based upon the use of operating system 
      software for the complex management of sharing information,
      but provides hardware support for the mnost important 
      coherence operations.  The goal is to delegate as much of
      the complexity to software as possible, while still 
      exploiting hardware to ensure high performance.  In this 
      paper, we describe the Galactica Net update-based coherence 
      protocol and the hardware required to implement that 
      protocol.  We also present basic performance data obtained 
      through detailed hardware simulations.

The report is available via anonymous ftp from chpc.chpc.org, in the directory 
pub/gnet.  The report is available as a compressed postscript file called 
gnet_updates.ps.Z.

Rick LaRowe
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