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Design and performance of the Shasta distributed shared memory protocol

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Pages: 245 - 252

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-902-5

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Daniel J. Scales	Western Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation
Kourosh Gharachorloo	Western Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation

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SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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