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An Overview of the NUMAchine Multiprocessor Project

The NUMAchine multiprocessor project is a large research e ort at the University of Toronto aimed to investigate and develop novel software techniques to support ecient parallel computing. An integral part of the project is to design and build the NUMAchine multiprocessor{; ; ; a large-scale, cache- coherent, non uniform memory access (NUMA), shared memory multiprocessor. The NUMAchine has a number of hardware innovations designed to facilitate our software techniques. This integrated hardware{; ; ; software approach is the major theme of the project. In this talk we will present an overview of the NUMAchine project, and will describe the NUMAchine multiprocessor architecture. In particular, we will describe the unique features of the architecture: network caches, cache-coherence protocol, support for block transfers, monitoring capabilities, and the FPGAbased exible hardware control. Our software techniques will be address fundamental issues in software support for multiprocessors in the areas of operating systems, compilers, and run- time support. We will describe our research and progress in each area.

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