ASPLOS-III, 1989: Boston, Massachusetts

ASPLOS-III Proceedings - Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, April 3-6, 1989. ACM Press, ISBN 0-89791-300-0, SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 17(2), SIGOPS Operating System Review 23(Special Issue April 1989), and SIGPLAN Notices 24(Special Issue May 1989)

Wide Instruction Word Machines

Robert Cohn, Thomas R. Gross, Monica S. Lam, P. S. Tseng:
Architecture and Compiler Tradeoffs for a Long Instruction Word Microprocessor. 2-14
Gurindar S. Sohi, Sriram Vajapeyam:
Tradeoffs in Instruction Format Design for Horizontal Architectures. 15-25
James C. Dehnert, Peter Y.-T. Hsu, Joseph P. Bratt:
Overlapped Loop Support in the Cydra 5. 26-38

Synchronization

Forbes J. Burkowski, Gordon V. Cormack, G. D. P. Dueck:
Architectural Support for Synchronous Task Communication. 40-53
Rajiv Gupta:
The Fuzzy Barrier: A Mechanism for High Speed Synchronization of Processors. 54-63
James R. Goodman, Mary K. Vernon, Philip J. Woest:
Efficent Synchronization Primitives for Large-Scale Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors. 64-75

Support for Debugging

John M. Mellor-Crummey, Thomas J. LeBlanc:
A Software Instruction Counter. 78-86
Ziya Aral, Ilya Gertner, Greg Schaffer:
Efficient Debugging Primitives for Multiprocessors. 87-95
Mark E. Staknis:
Sheaved Memory: Architectural Support for State Saving and Restoration in Paged Systems. 96-102

Operating System Issues

Mark A. Holliday:
Reference History, Page Size, and Migration Daemons in Local/Remote Architectures. 104-112
David L. Black, Richard F. Rashid, David B. Golub, Charles R. Hill, Robert V. Baron:
Translation Lookaside Buffer Consistency: A Software Approach. 113-122
Garth A. Gibson, Lisa Hellerstein, Richard M. Karp, Randy H. Katz, David A. Patterson:
Failure Correction Techniques for Large Disk Arrays. 123-132

Instruction Sets

Norman P. Jouppi, Jonathan Bertoni, David W. Wall:
A Unified Vector/Scalar Floating-Point Architecture. 134-143
Hans Mulder:
Data Buffering: Run-Time Versus Compile-Time Support. 144-151
Thomas L. Adams, Richard E. Zimmerman:
An Analysis of 8086 Instruction Set Usage in MS DOS Programs. 152-160

Compiler/Language Issues

Joachim Roos:
A Real-Time Support Processor for Ada Tasking. 162-171
Steven R. Vegdahl, Uwe F. Pleban:
The Run-Time Environment for Screme, A Scheme Implementation on the 88000. 172-182
Scott McFarling:
Program Optimization for Instruction Caches. 183-191

Miscellaneous Topics

Paul A. Karger:
Using Registers to Optimize Cross-Domain Call Performance. 194-204
Emmanuel A. Arnould, Francois J. Bitz, Eric C. Cooper, H. T. Kung, Robert D. Sansom, Peter Steenkiste:
The Design of Nectar: A Network Backplane for Heterogeneous Multicomputers. 205-216
Sergio A. Delgado-Rannauro, T. J. Reynolds:
A Message Driven Or-Parallel Machine. 217-228

Caching

Susan S. Owicki, Anant Agarwal:
Evaluating the Performance of Software Cache Coherence. 230-242
Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Anoop Gupta:
Analysis of Cache Invalidation Patterns in Multiprocessors. 243-256
Susan J. Eggers, Randy H. Katz:
The Effect of Sharing on the Cache and Bus Performance of Parallel Programs. 257-270

Instruction Set Parallelism

Norman P. Jouppi, David W. Wall:
Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Machines. 272-282
William J. Dally:
Micro-Optimization of Floating Point Operations. 283-289
Michael D. Smith, Mike Johnson, Mark Horowitz:
Limits on Multiple Instruction Issue. 290-302