CS252: Reading Assignment #16 Due Wednesday, April 4th

1. The directory-based cache coherence protocol for the DASH multiprocessor, Daniel Lenoski, James Laudon, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Anoop Gupta, and John Hennessy. Proceedings of the International symposium on Computer Architecture, 1990.
   Supplemental:
   • The DASH Prototype: Implementation and Performance, Daniel Lenoski, James Laudon, Truman Joe, David Nakahira, Luis Stevens, Anoop Gupta, and John Hennessy. Proceedings of the International symposium on Computer Architecture, 1992. SeeISCA Retrospective
2. LimitLess Directories: A Scalable Cache Coherence Scheme, David Chaiken, John Kubiatowicz, and Anant Agarwal, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS IV), pages 224-234, April 1991.
   Supplemental:
   
   • The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance, Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, Kirk L. Johnson, David Kranz, John Kubiatowicz, Beng-Hong Lim, Kenneth Mackenzie, and Donald yeung. Proceedings of the International symposium on Computer Architecture, 1995.  SeeISCA Retrospective
     

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