Department of Informatics Technische Universität München Informatik X: Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation / Parallelrechnerarchitektur Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode , Prof. Dr. Hans Michael Gerndt

The SCI Virtual Memory or SCI-VM provides the basis for the HAMSTER framework in the form of a hybrid software/hardware DSM system. It uses the software mechanisms from traditional DSM systems and combines them with the hardware DSM capabilities provided by SCI. The result is a fully transparent global virtual memory abstraction exported through a low-level API. This API can be used to allocate, manage, and optimize the behavior of the global memory.

More information

• Challenges
• Design overview
• Potential problems and their solutions
• Some performance results

Links to related topics in SMiLE

• High level programming models on top of the SCI-VM
• HAMSTER (Hybrid-dsm based Adaptive and Modular Shared memory archiTEctuRe
• SMiLE middleware for both parallel paradigms

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