I-Structure Software Cache: a split-phase transaction runtime cache system

Author

Lin, Wen-Yen ; Gaudiot, Jean-Luc

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

35339

Firstpage

122

Lastpage

126

Abstract

Split-phase transaction mechanisms have been adopted in some multithreaded architectures as an efficient way to overlap computation and communication in distributed memory systems. We describe our I-Structure Software Cache (ISSC) runtime system, which takes advantage of the global data locality in a split-phase transaction remote memory accessing scheme without any specific hardware support. Our preliminary simulation results also show that our ISSC runtime system can dramatically decrease network traffic by caching remote requests

Keywords

cache storage; distributed memory systems; multiprogramming; parallel architectures; transaction processing; I-Structure Software Cache; ISSC runtime system; communication; computation; distributed memory systems; global data locality; multithreaded architectures; network traffic; remote request caching; simulation results; split-phase transaction remote memory access; split-phase transaction runtime cache system; Communication switching; Context modeling; Distributed computing; Earth; Hardware; Reduced instruction set computing; Runtime; Software systems; Switches; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1089-795X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7633-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACT.1996.552655

Filename

552655