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Evaluation of Hardware Synchronization Support of the SCC Many-Core Processor
Pablo Reble, Stefan Lankes, Florian Zeitz, and Thomas Bemmerl, RWTH Aachen University
The integration of many cores per chip will lead to inefficiency of traditional multi-processor techniques. In particular, a hardware cache coherency protocol includes performance and hardware overhead, so that for a growing number of cores the coherence wall problem will become more serious.
The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is a recent research processor of a Cluster-on-Chip architecture, that waives a hardware-based coherency and possesses a network on chip technology. An attractive alternative to enable shared memory programming models on future many-core systems is the introduction of a software-oriented coherency.
Any software based approach, such as shared virtual memory (SVM), will need fast synchronization methods.The assumption is that hardware support is essential to achieve this performance. In this paper we will study and evaluate this hypothesis.
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title = {Evaluation of Hardware Synchronization Support of the {SCC} {Many-Core} Processor},
year = {2012},
address = {Berkeley, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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