On the doubly-linked list protocol for distributed shared memory multiprocessor systems

Author

Lau, Albert C K ; Leung, Kelvin H W ; Yung, Nelson H C ; Cheung, Y.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

19-21 Apr 1995

Firstpage

293

Abstract

This paper introduces the doubly-linked list (DLL) protocol for distributed shared memory (DSM) multiprocessor systems. The protocol makes use of two linked lists to keep track of valid copies of pages in the system, thus eliminating the use of copysets. Simulation studies show that the DLL protocol achieved considerable speed-up for common mathematical problems including a linear equations solver and a matrix multiplier. Performance improvement of up to 51.9% over the dynamic distributed manager algorithm is obtained. Further improvement and possible modification of the protocol are also discussed

Keywords

data structures; distributed memory systems; protocols; shared memory systems; distributed shared memory multiprocessor systems; doubly-linked list protocol; linear equations solver; linked list; matrix multiplier; Clustering algorithms; Distributed decision making; Equations; Heuristic algorithms; Kelvin; Modems; Multiprocessing systems; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Programming profession; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1995. ICAPP 95. IEEE First ICA/sup 3/PP., IEEE First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2018-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAPP.1995.472198

Filename

472198