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System Software Support for Reducing Memory Latency on Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: Proceedings of the 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (HCI)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios S. Papatheodorou, Theodore S. |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Thispaperoverviewsresultsfrom ourrecentwork onbuilding customizedsystemsoftwaresupportfor DistributedSharedMemoryMultiprocessors.Themechanismsandpoliciesoutlinedin this paperareconnectedwith a singleconceptualthread:they all attempt to reducethememorylatency of parallelprogramsby optimizingcritical systemservices, while hiding the complex architecturaldetailsof Distributed SharedMemory from the programmer . We presentfour techniquesthat exhibit solid performanceimprovements: Efficientmemorymanagement for lightweightmultithreading,highly scalablehybridsynchronizationprimitives, a virtual memory management schemefor DSM systemsand transparent operatingsystemservicesfor adaptingparallelprogramsto multiprogrammed environments. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~dsn/papers/HELLENIC_CONFERENCE_INFORMATICS.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cs.wm.edu/~dsn/papers/HELLENIC_CONFERENCE_INFORMATICS.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |