BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-88-1197
       ENTRY:: April 24, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: The VMP Multiprocessor: Initial Experience, Refinements and
               Performance Evaluation
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Cheriton, D. R.
      AUTHOR:: Gupta, A.
      AUTHOR:: Boyle, P. D.
      AUTHOR:: Goosen, H. A.
        DATE:: March 1988
       PAGES:: 26
    ABSTRACT:: VMP is an experimental multiprocessor being developed at
               Stanford University, suitable for high-performance
               workstations and server machines. Its primary novelty lies in
               the use of software management of the preprocessor caches and
               the design decisions in the cache and bus that make this
               approach feasible. The design and some uniprocessor
               trace-driven simulations indicating its perforrnance have
               been reported previously.

               In this paper, we present our initial experience with the VMP
               design based on a running prototype as well as various
               refinements to the design. Performance evaluation is based
               both on measurement of actual execution as well as
               trace-driven simulation of multiprocessor executions from the
               Mach operating system.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950424]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-88-1197