This thesis describes a method to simulate parallel programs written for shared memory multiprocessors. We have extended execution-driven simulation to facilitate the simulation of shared memory. We have developed a shared memory profiler, which, at compile-time, inserts simulation support code into the assembly code of the program to be able to ...

This dissertation describes the implementation and evaluation of operating system design techniques that can be used to achieve scalability and to improve performance in large-scale shared memory multiprocessors with non-uniform memory hierarchies. We describe the implementation of SALSA, an operating system that incorporates these techniques and ...