Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering. Expected December 1997. Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, August 1991. Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, June 1990. The performance gap between hardware and software DSM is narrowed by hybrid systems.
Hybrid systems implement coherence in software, but use hardware support for fine-grain sharing.
At the same time, it consistently outperforms other hybrid systems based on the NUMA or Simple COMA memory organizations. First prize at the Computer Science National Camp, Sinaia, Romania, 1990. Michel Dubois, Alain Gefflaut, Jaeheon Jeong, Adrian Moga, and Koray Oner. To appear in IEEE Design and Test of Computers. USC CENG Technical Report 97-11, July 1997.