Strings: a high-performance distributed shared memory for symmetrical multiprocessor clusters

Author

Roy, Sumit ; Chaudhary, Vipin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

28-31 Jul 1998

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

97

Abstract

Introduces Strings, a high-performance distributed shared memory system designed for clusters of symmetrical multiprocessors (SMPs). The distinguishing feature of this system is the use of a fully multithreaded runtime system, written using POSIX threads. Strings also allows multiple application threads to be run on each node in a cluster. Since most modern UNIX systems can multiplex these threads on kernel-level lightweight processes, applications written using Strings can use all the processors in a SMP machine. This paper describes some of the architectural details of the system and analyzes the performance improvements with two example programs and a few benchmark programs from the SPLASH-2 suite

Keywords

Unix; distributed memory systems; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; shared memory systems; POSIX threads; SPLASH-2 suite; Strings; UNIX systems; benchmark programs; high-performance distributed shared memory system; kernel-level lightweight processes; multiple application threads; multithreaded runtime system; performance improvements; symmetrical multiprocessor clusters; system architecture; Concurrent computing; Drugs; Fuels; Laboratories; Microprocessors; Oceans; Programming profession; Sun; Workstations; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1998. Proceedings. The Seventh International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8579-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1998.709960

Filename

709960