Fast data communication for scalable distributed shared-memory parallel computer hyper-KORP

Author

Nakajo, Hironori ; Miura, Newton K. ; Wada, Koichi ; Kaneda, Yukio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Kobe Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1993

fDate

19-21 May 1993

Firstpage

382

Abstract

A loosely coupled ring-connected parallel processing system (called KORP: Kobe University Ring-connected Parallel Computer) with distributed shared-memory is being developed. The high-speed communication in KORP is performed by the exclusive data transmission hardware called Stream Controller (SC). The consistency of shared data is maintained by a coherence-protocol controller which is a dedicated hardware for coherence control. The authors describe the architecture of KORP and its scalable configuration hyper-KORP. A trace-driven simulator is developed to analyze a distributed shared-memory system of KORP. SC performance evaluation by simulation using a parallel benchmark application is shown

Keywords

coherence; distributed memory systems; memory protocols; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; shared memory systems; Stream Controller; architecture; coherence-protocol controller; data transmission hardware; high-speed communication; hyper-KORP; parallel benchmark application; performance evaluation; ring-connected parallel processing system; scalable distributed shared-memory parallel computer; trace-driven simulator; Cache memory; Communication system control; Concurrent computing; Data communication; Distributed computing; Hardware; Modeling; Packet switching; Parallel processing; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1993., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0971-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1993.407341

Filename

407341