Paper Info
Title
Network Interface With Task Spawning Support For Noc-Based Dsm Architectures
Abstract
Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) architectures are becoming popular to exploit parallelism of architectures while offering flexibility of using both shared and distributed memory paradigms to application developers. At the same time, Networks on Chip (NoC) have become reality to address communication bottlenecks in massively parallel tile-based processor architectures. In NoC-based DSM architectures, the synchronization overhead for spawning a task on a remote network node may lead to high performance penalties. In order to reduce the synchronization delays during remote task spawning, the design of Network Interface (NI) becomes important. In this paper, we present a network interface architecture which supports task spawning between network nodes by employing efficient synchronization mechanisms. The proposed NI internal hardware support offloads the software from handling the synchronization during remote task spawning and hence results in achieving better overall performance. Simulation results highlight that the proposed hardware architecture improves the performance by up to 42% in comparison to existing state of the art approaches. The FPGA prototype is also used to depict the benefits of the proposed approach for real world applications. Implementation results show the low area footprint of the proposed hardware.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-16086-3_15
ARCHITECTURE OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS - ARCS 2015
Field
DocType
Volume
Shared memory,Computer science,Node (networking),Distributed memory,FPGA prototype,Real-time computing,Remote direct memory access,Distributed shared memory,Network interface,Hardware architecture
Conference
9017
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.36
References 
Authors
9
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aurang Zaib1265.74
Jan Heisswolf2515.67
Andreas Weichslgartner3527.16
Thomas Wild412425.65
Jürgen Teich52886273.54
Jürgen Becker61894259.42
Andreas Herkersdorf770388.32