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Software transactional memory for large scale clusters (2008)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Chamberlain, Bradford L. Bocchino, Robert L. Adve, Vikram S. |
| Abstract | While there has been extensive work on the design of software transactional memory (STM) for cache coherent shared memory systems, there has been no work on the design of an STM system for very large scale platforms containing potentially thousands of nodes. In this work, we present Cluster-STM, an STM designed for high performance on large-scale commodity clusters. Our design addresses several novel issues posed by this domain, including aggregating communication, managing locality, and distributing transactional metadata onto the nodes. We also re-evaluate several STM design choices previously studied for cache-coherent machines and conclude that, in some cases, different choices are appropriate on clusters. Finally, we show that our design scales well up to 512 processors. This is because on a cluster, the main barrier to STM scalability is the remote communication overhead imposed by the STM operations, and our design aggregates most of that communication with the communication of the underlying data. |
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| Publisher Date | 2008-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Stm Operation Memory System Underlying Data Present Cluster-stm Cache-coherent Machine Large Scale Platform Remote Communication Overhead Several Novel Issue High Performance Main Barrier Transactional Metadata Cache Coherent Design Scale Stm Scalability Different Choice Stm System Large Scale Cluster Extensive Work Large-scale Commodity Cluster Several Stm Design Choice Software Transactional Memory |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Proceeding |
