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High-Performance All-Software Distributed Shared Memory

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Abstract

The C Region Library (CRL) is a new all-software distributed shared memory (DSM) system. CRL requires no special compiler, hardware, or operating system support beyond the ability to send and receive messages between processing nodes. It provides a simple, portable, region-based shared address space programming model that is capable of delivering good performance on a wide range of multiprocessor and distributed system architectures. Each region is an arbitrarily sized, contiguous area of memory. The programmer defines regions and delimits accesses to them using annotations. CRL implementations have been developed for two platforms: the Thinking Machines CM5, a commercial multicomputer, and the MIT Alewife machine, an experimental multiprocessor offering efficient hardware support for both message passing and shared memory. Results are presented for up to 128 processors on the CM-5 and up to 32 processors on Alewife. Using Alewife as a vehicle, this thesis presents results from the fir...

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APA 7

Johnson, K. L. (1996). High-Performance All-Software Distributed Shared Memory. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1.

MLA 9

Johnson, Kirk L. “High-Performance All-Software Distributed Shared Memory.” DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1996, p. 1.

Chicago

Johnson, Kirk L. 1996. “High-Performance All-Software Distributed Shared Memory.” DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): 1.

Harvard

Johnson, K.L. (1996) ‘High-Performance All-Software Distributed Shared Memory’, DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), p. 1.

BibTeX

@article{johnson1996high,
  title = {{High-Performance All-Software Distributed Shared Memory}},
  author = {Johnson, Kirk L.},
  journal = {DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)},
  pages = {1},
  year = {1996}
}

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