A software integration architecture for support of the large-capacity memory

This article is concerned chiefly with a software integration architecture for providing a large-capacity collective memory layer on a multi-node system by using a remote direct memory access technique and a software virtualization technique. Major components described by the architecture include a memory region management module, a large-capacity collective memory service module, and a data cooperative module. As the effect of the architecture, the following merits are considered: (1) shorten access time more than a disk-based storage, (2) input /output delay prevention by prefetching mechanism, (3) increased system scalability and (4) burst real-time stream computation.