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RICE UNIVERSITY

Synchronization, Coherence, and Consistency for High Performance Shared-Memory Multiprocessing

by Sandhya Dwarkadas

[A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Approved, Thesis Committee: J Robert Jump, Co-Chairman Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering James B. Sinclair, Co-Chairman Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering John K. Bennett Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Ken Kennedy Professor Computer Science Houston, Texas]

September, 1992