NDLI: The design and evaluation of a shared object system for distributed memory machines

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Scales, Daniel J. Lam, Monica S.
Abstract	This paper describes the design and evaluation of SAM, a shared object system for distributed memory machines. SAM is a portable run-time system that provides a global name space and automatic caching of shared data. SAM incorporates mechanisms to address the problem of high communication overheads on distributed memory machines; these mechanisms include tying synchronization to data access, chaotic access to data, prefetching of data, and pushing of data to remote processors. SAM has been implemented on the CM-5, Intel iPSC/860 and Paragon, IBM SP1, and networks of workstations running PVM. SAM applications run on all these platforms without modification. This paper provides an extensive analysis on several complex scientific algorithms written in SAM on a variety of hardware platforms. We find that the performance of these SAM applications depends fundamentally on the scalability of the underlying parallel algorithm, and whether the algorithm's communication requirements can be satisfied by the hardware. Our experience suggests that SAM is successful in allowing programmers to use distributed memory machines effectively with much less programming effort than required today.
File Format	PDF
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1994-11-14
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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The design and evaluation of a shared object system for distributed memory machines