Title :
Design issues for distributed shared-memory systems
Author :
Lenoski, Daniel E.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Adv. Syst., Silicon Graphics Comput. Syst., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
Distributed Shared-Memory (DSM) machines combine the ease-of-programming benefits of today´s bus-based SMP systems with the scalability of MPP/Cluster message-passing systems. As with these earlier systems, the most important trade-offs in the design of DSM systems involve cost and performance. Creating a DSM system that achieves better cost-performance than both SMP or cluster-based systems requires the careful trade-off of a number of design parameters
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; parallel architectures; shared memory systems; DSM; MPP; cluster-based systems; distributed shared-memory systems; message-passing systems; scalability; Costs; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1996. ICCD '96. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7554-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1996.563533
