CurtSchimmel has been working at SGI (http://www.sgi.com) for many years
on Irix virtual memory and other system software.

His book "UNIX(TM) Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing
and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
describes the SMP and cache architectures of
various modern Unix systems.
It presents an excellent and thorough coverage of CacheArchitecture forces in his book on parallelizing Unix kernels.
Further details on this book are on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633388.
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