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1996 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '96)
Distributed Shared Memory Architecture for JUMP-1: A General-Purpose MPP Prototype
Beijing, CHINA
June 12-June 14
ISBN: 0-8186-7460-1
We describe and evaluate a novel distributed-shared memory (DSM) architecture of JUMP-1, a general-purpose MPP system. For improving performance, JUMP-1 DSM architecture utilize cooperation of the network, construction of memory-directories and memory-protocol that unifies memory-consistency, communication and synchronization. Among features of JUMP-1 DSM, we show detail of Reduced Hierarchical Bit-map Directory schemes (RHBDs) which utilizes hierarchy embedded in the interconnection network for reducing network traffic on shared memory operations.Three variations of the RHBD are implemented on a network called the RDT (Recursive Diagonal Torus) consisting of the hierarchical structure of two dimensional tori. In RHBDs, the bit map directory is reduced for quick multicasting without accessing directory in each hierarchy. Most of unnecessary packets caused by reduction of the bit map are removed with the pruning cache provided in the router. The results of simulation demonstrates that latency for cache coherent messages is much improved compared with traditional directory schemes.
Index Terms:
parallel processing, distributed shared memory, multicast, interconnection network
Citation:
Takashi Matsumoto, Tomohiro Kudoh, Katsunobu Nishimura, Kei Hiraki, Hidehiko Tanaka, "Distributed Shared Memory Architecture for JUMP-1: A General-Purpose MPP Prototype," ispan, pp.131, 1996 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '96), 1996
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