Implementation of the software distributed shared-memory system on the InfiniBand

Inho Park, Hong Wook Choi, Youngsun Han, Seokjoong Hwang, Seon Wook Kim, Kyung Park

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    Abstract

    For the last decade there have been strong research activities in many areas about the software distributed shared-memory (SDSM) systems, such as applications, protocols, and compiler optimizations. But, the current Ethernet-based SDSM system incurs high execution overhead due to process interruption at data communication for memory consistency. In this paper, we present the implementation of the SDSM system to use the next generation of an interconnection technique, i.e., the InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) which supports shared-memory programming semantics by means of remote direct-memory access (RDMA) and atomic operations. Our implementation is based on the lazy release consistency model, and the data communications for memory consistency between processes are minimized. We show that our SDSM to use full features of the IBA can improve the performance significantly over the IPoIB-based SDSM system by reducing the communication overhead for memory consistency.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'04
    EditorsH.R. Arabnia
    Pages1273-1279
    Number of pages7
    Publication statusPublished - 2004
    EventProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'04 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
    Duration: 2004 Jun 212004 Jun 24

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'04
    Volume3

    Other

    OtherProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'04
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityLas Vegas, NV
    Period04/6/2104/6/24

    Keywords

    • Infiniband
    • Lazy release consistency
    • Software distributed shared-memory system

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Engineering

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