Much research has been done in fast communication on clusters and in protocols for supporting software shared memory across them. However, the end performance of applications that...
The Convex SPP-1000 is the first commercial implementation of a new generation of scalable shared memory parallel computers with full cache coherence. It employs a hierarchical s...
Thomas L. Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Peter MacNeic...
Software fine-grain distributed shared memory (FGDSM) provides a simplified shared-memory programming interface with minimal or no hardware support. Originally software FGDSMs tar...
Ioannis Schoinas, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, Jam...
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contribut...
Kevin T. Lim, Jichuan Chang, Trevor N. Mudge, Part...
In programming high performance applications, shared address-space platforms are preferable for fine-grained computation, while distributed address-space platforms are more suita...