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Abstract | ||
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No single message passing mechanism carl efficiently support all types of communication that commonly occur in most parallel or distributed programs, MIT's StarT-Voyager, a hybrid message passing/shared memory parallel machine, provides four message passing mechanisms to achieve high performance over a wide spectrum of communication types and sizes. Hardware and address translation enforced protection allows direct user-level access to message passing facilities in a multiuser environment. StarT-Voyager's protection scheme improves upon past designs by nor requiring strictly synchronized gang-scheduling, and by supporting non-monolithic protection domains. To minimize the development effort and cost, the machine is designed to use unmodified commercial PowerPC 604-based SMP systems as the building block. A Network End-point Subsystem (NES) card which plugs into one of each SMP's processor card slots provides the interface to Arctic, a low-latency, high-bandwidth network developed at MIT. This paper describes StarT-Voyager's message passing mechanisms and their predicted performance. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
1998 | 10.1109/HIPC.1998.737993 | HiPC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
computer science,bandwidth,gang scheduling,low latency,message passing,shared memory,registers,scheduling,spectrum,arctic,power system protection,powerpc | Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Computer network,PowerPC,Message passing,Distributed computing,Shared memory,Parallel computing,Message broker,Bandwidth (signal processing),Power-system protection,Operating system,Voyager program | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1094-7256 | 0-8186-9194-8 | 10 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
1.21 | 6 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boon Seong Ang | 1 | 10 | 1.21 |
| Derek Chiou | 2 | 718 | 48.97 |
| Larry Rudolph | 3 | 37 | 5.01 |
| Arvind | 4 | 1696 | 210.38 |