Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 4 1996
Foil 42 Requested Capabilities in Hardware Architecture
From Summary of Working Groups at PAWS and PetaSoft Meetings PAWS(Mandalay Beach) and PetSoft(Bodega Bay) -- April 23 and June 17-19,96. byGeoffrey C. Fox
Global Address Space
Can name all levels of hierarchy -- accessible from external subsystem
Cache coherence is not required
Varied granularity of access required
Cheap Synchronization with for instance Tag Bits
Exposed Mechanisms for keeping the processor utilized during long latency operations
Prefetching
Fast context switching
Thread support
To be continued
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