In general;
communication overhead and coherence-induced overhead are two main culprits for performance loss in software DSM systems. The communication cost in network of workstation environment is obviously high;
large unit of coherence in software DSM systems results in false sharing problem;
encoding and decoding diffs in multiple writer protocol are The work of this paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.69896250 and No.69703002;
and the CLIMBING Program.Acknowledgements We are very grateful to Liviu Iftode of Princeton University and Honghui Lu of Rice University;
who kindly provided some of their most recent papers and benchmark programs. Thanks are also given to M. Rasit Eskicioglu of University of Alberta;
Canada;
who helped us to port our JIAJIA system to IBM SP2. An allocation of compute r time from the National Center of Intelligent Computing (NCIC) of China is gratefully acknowledged;