Performance evaluation of consistency models for multicomputers with virtually shared memory

Author

Lindemann, Christoph ; Schön, Friedrich

Author_Institution

Inst. fuer Tech. Inf., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

5-8 Jan 1993

Firstpage

154

Abstract

The authors introduce a deterministic and stochastic Petri net (DSPN) for evaluating the performance of an adaptive memory consistency model for a multicomputer system with virtually shared memory. DSPNs provide a unified modeling tool for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of memory consistency models. The quantitative results of the adaptive consistency model are compared with corresponding results of the sequential consistency model. The results show the limitations of the sequential consistency model and reveal the advantages of employing the adaptive consistency model

Keywords

multiprocessing systems; performance evaluation; shared memory systems; virtual storage; adaptive consistency model; adaptive memory consistency model; consistency models; deterministic and stochastic Petri net; multicomputers; performance evaluation; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis; sequential consistency model; unified modeling tool; virtually shared memory; Access protocols; Computer science; Operating systems; Power system modeling; Probability; Program processors; Scalability; Software packages; Steady-state; Stochastic systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1993, Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3230-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1993.284114

Filename

284114