Ph.D. Dissertation

The Performance and Scalability of Distributed Shared Memory Cache Coherence Protocols

Mark Heinrich
Ph.D. Dissertation
Computer Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
October 1998

Each chapter is listed individually. Click on the chapter to get the PDF version. PostScript versions are also available.

Title Page (Postscript)

Signature Page (Postscript)

Abstract (Postscript)

Acknowledgments (Postscript)

Table of Contents (Postscript)

List of Tables (Postscript)

List of Figures (Postscript)

Chapter One: Introduction (Postscript)

Chapter Two: Cache Coherence Protocols (Postscript)

Chapter Three: FLASH Architecture (Postscript)

Chapter Four: FLASH Protocol Implementations (Postscript)

Chapter Five: Simulation Methodology (Postscript)

Chapter Six: Results (Postscript)

Chapter Seven: Conclusions, Related Work, and Beyond (Postscript)

Appendix A: Example Protocol Handlers (Postscript)

Appendix B: Table of Results (Postscript)

References (Postscript)

Mark Andrew Heinrich

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