TY - JOUR
TI - MaDCoWS: A scalable distributed shared memory environment for massively parallel multiprocessors
AU - Dimitrelos, D.
AU - Halatsis, C.
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PY - 1999
VL - 1593
TODO - null
SP - 784-793
PB - Springer-Verlag
SN - null
TODO - 10.1007/bfb0100639
TODO - Benchmarking;  Parallel processing systems, Distributed shared memory;  Implementation structure;  Massively parallels;  Message sequences;  Network topology;  Optimisations;  Runtime systems;  Software implementation, Memory architecture
TODO - In this paper we present MaDCoWS, a software implementation of a Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) runtime system, specifically designed for massively parallel 2-D grid multiprocessors. The system takes advantage of the network topology in order to minimise the paths of the message sequences realising the shared operations. As a result its performance is increased and the system becomes scalable even to very large processor numbers. We present the basic ideas for 2-D optimisations, the implementation structure and results from synthetic and application benchmarks executed on a 1024 processor Parsytec GCel. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999.
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