CS258: Reading Assignment #11 Due Wednesday, March 20

1. Daniel Lenoski, James Laudon, Truman Joe, David Nakahira, Luis Stevens, Anoop Gupta, and John Hennessy, The DASH Prototype: Implementation and Performance, Proceedings of the International symposium on Computer Architecture, 1992. SeeISCA Retrospective
2. Anant Agarwal, Richard Simoni, John Hennessy, and Mark Horowitz, An Evaluation of Directory Schemes for Cache Coherence, Proceedings of the International symposium on Computer Architecture, 1988.  See ISCA Retrospective

Write one paragraph about each paper. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.