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CS258: Reading Assignment #15
Due Wednesday, April 2

The reading assignment for Wednesday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. The Stanford FLASH multiprocessor,  J. Kuskin, D. Ofelt, M. Heinrich, J. Heinlein, R. Simoni, K. Gharachorloo, J. Chapin, D.  Nakahira, J. Baxter, M. Horowitz, A. Gupta, M. Rosenblum, J. Hennessy.  In Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1994.
  2. An adaptive cache coherence protocol optimized for migratory sharing, Per Stenström, Mats Brorsson, Lars Sandberg, In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1993
Write one paragraph about each of these papers. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.

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