
Index
A
absolute performance, 202, 228-229
measuring, 203
wall-clock time, 228-229
abstraction layers, 52
for bus-based SMPs, 270 (fig.)
parallel architecture, 27 (fig.)
access
data, 137-142, 254
faults,
558
memory, 310, 942
order with explicit synchron-
ization, 285 (fig.)
order without synchronization,
285 (fig.)
user-level, 491-496
access control, 706
through code instrumentation,
707-708
with decoupled assist, 707
fine-grained, 707
through language/compiler
support, 721-724
page-based, 709-721
access time
CRAY T3D, 510
DRAM, 831
reducing, 831
remote cache, 663
acquire-based consistency, 738-739
acquire method, 335
acquire operation, 692 ...