DSVM6K: distributed shared virtual memory on the RISC System/6000

Author

Blount, M.L. ; Butrico, M.

Author_Institution

IBM Res., Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

22-26 Feb. 1993

Firstpage

491

Lastpage

500

Abstract

The authors describe DSVM6K, an implementation of distributed shared virtual memory (DSVM) in AIX v3 on the IBM RISC (reduced instruction set computer) System/6000 workstation. The design and implementation exploit the high-speed fiber links and low-overhead link protocols on the RISC System/6000 workstation. The results demonstrate that technology like this is required for a high-performance DSVM system. DSVM6K achieves the highest performance of any DSVM system reported in the literature. Descriptions of the overall design, programming interfaces, performance measurement data, and application results are presented.<>

Keywords

distributed memory systems; reduced instruction set computing; shared memory systems; virtual storage; workstations; AIX v3; DSVM6K; IBM RISC; RISC System/6000; application results; distributed shared virtual memory; high-speed fiber links; low-overhead link protocols; performance measurement data; programming interfaces; reduced instruction set computer; workstation; Application software; Hardware; Kernel; Memory management; Message passing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Protocols; Reduced instruction set computing; Trademarks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '93, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3400-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1993.289719

Filename

289719