Name
Abstract | ||
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Barrier synchronisation is very important in scalable multiprocessors. As network latency rapidly approaches thousands of processor cycles and multiprocessors systems become larger and larger, conventional barrier techniques are failing to keep up with the increasing demand for efficient synchronisation. In this paper, we present a memory controller-based operation that optimises the barrier function of an OpenMP library. The proposed mechanism allows atomic operations on the barrier variable to be executed on the home memory controller and the home memory controller to send fine-grained updates to waiting processors when a barrier variable reaches certain values. On a cycle-accurate execution-driven simulator, experiment results show that the proposed barrier implementation outperforms a conventional LL/SC (Load-Linked/ Store-Conditional) version by 20.8X, a conventional processor-side atomic instruction version by 15.5X, and an active messages version by 13.4X. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed barrier achieves better performance than all other existing non-hardwired implementations, and with an improved programming interface. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1504/IJHPCN.2004.007563 | IJHPCN |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
memory controller-based operation,conventional processor-side atomic instruction,scalable barrier synchronisation,proposed barrier,conventional barrier technique,large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors,proposed barrier implementation,home memory controller,barrier synchronisation,active messages version,barrier variable,barrier function,simulation,high performance computing,memory controller,distributed shared memory,network latency | Synchronization,Shared memory,Supercomputer,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Parallel computing,Distributed shared memory,Memory controller,Distributed computing,Memory barrier,Scalability | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
1 | 1-3 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 19 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhen Fang | 1 | 49 | 4.45 |
| Lixin Zhang | 2 | 571 | 45.96 |
| John B. Carter | 3 | 1785 | 162.82 |
| Mike Parker | 4 | 1 | 0.68 |