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CS258: Reading Assignment #13
Due Wednesday, March 19



The reading assignment for Wednesday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. Cache Coherence Protocols: Evaluation Using a Multiprocessor Simulation Model, James Archibald and Jean-Loup Baer, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 1986,
  2. LimitLess Directories: A Scalable Cache Coherence Scheme, David Chaiken, John Kubiatowicz, and Anant Agarwal, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS IV), pages 224-234, April 1991.
You must also:
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.
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