Name
Abstract | ||
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We show how novel active memory system research and system networking trends can be combined to realize hardware distributed shared memory on clusters of industry-standard workstations. Our active memory controller extends the cache coherence protocol to support transparent use of address re-mapping techniques that dramatically improve single-node performance, and also contains the necessary functionality for building a hardware DSM machine. Simultaneously, commodity network technology is becoming more tightly-integrated with the memory controller. We call our design of active memory commodity nodes interconnected by a next-generation network active memory clusters. We present a detailed design of the AMC architecture, focusing on the active memory controller and the network characteristics necessary to support AMC. We show simulation results for a range of parallel applications, showing that AMC performance is comparable to that of custom hardware DSM systems and far exceeds that of the fastest software DSM solutions. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2002 | ISHPC | novel active memory system,active memory commodity,custom hardware dsm system,active memory clusters,dsm solution,commodity network technology,amc performance,active memory cluster,active memory controller,amc architecture,commodity clusters,efficient multiprocessing,memory controller,distributed shared memory,next generation network |
Field | DocType | ISBN |
Registered memory,Interleaved memory,Shared memory,Computer science,Parallel computing,Memory management,Non-uniform memory access,Memory map,Distributed shared memory,Memory controller,Distributed computing,Embedded system | Conference | 3-540-43674-X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
5 | 0.50 | 18 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Heinrich | 1 | 198 | 25.11 |
| Evan Speight | 2 | 342 | 26.28 |
| Mainak Chaudhuri | 3 | 300 | 18.86 |