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ViSMI: Software Distributed Shared Memory for InfiniBand Clusters
Boston, Massachusetts August 30-September 01
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/NCA.2004.1347776Network Computing and Applications, T ...
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Chistian Osendorfer, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany
Jie Tao, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany
Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany
Martin Mairandres, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany
This paper describes ViSMI, a software distributed shared memory system for cluster systems connected via InfiniBand. ViSMI implements a kind of home-based lazy release consistency protocol, which uses a multiple-writer coherence scheme to alleviate the traffic introduced by false sharing. For further performance gain, InfiniBand features and optimized page invalidation mechanisms are applied in order to reduce synchronization overhead. First experimental results show that ViSMI introduces good performance comparable to similar software DSMs.
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Chistian Osendorfer, Jie Tao, Carsten Trinitis, Martin Mairandres, "ViSMI: Software Distributed Shared Memory for InfiniBand Clusters," nca, pp.185-191, Network Computing and Applications, Third IEEE International Symposium on (NCA'04), 2004
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