ViSMI: Software distributed shared memory for infiniBand clusters

Chistian Osendorfer, Jie Tao, Carsten Trinitis, Martin Mairandres

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Third IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2004
Pages185-191
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings - Third IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2004 - Cambridge, MA, United States
Duration: 30 Aug 20041 Sep 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings - Third IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2004

Conference

ConferenceProceedings - Third IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2004
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCambridge, MA
Period30/08/041/09/04

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