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Compiler and Software Distributed Shared Memory Support for Irregular Applications

Willy Zwaenepoel

We investigate the use of a software distributed shared memory (DSM) layer to support irregular computations on distributed memory machines. Software DSM supports irregular computation through demand fetching of data in response to memory access faults. Wi ...

1997

The Tempest Approach to Distributed Shared Memory

James Richard Larus, David Wood

This paper summarizes how distributed shared memory (DSM) can be both efficiently and portably supported by the Tempest interface. Tempest is a collection of mechanisms for communication and synchronization in parallel programs. These mechanisms provide co ...

IEEE1996

An integrated compile-time/run-time software distributed shared memory system

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sandhya Dwarkadas

On a distributed memory machine, hand-coded message passing leads to the most efficient execution, but it is difficult to use. Parallelizing compilers can approach the performance of hand-coded message passing by translating data-parallel programs into mes ...

1996

StormWatch: A Tool for Visualizing Memory System Protocols

James Richard Larus

Recent research has offered programmers increased options for programming parallel computers by exposing system policies (e.g., memory coherence protocols) or by providing several programming paradigms (e.g. message passing and shared memory) on the same p ...

ACM/IEEE1995

Techniques for Reducing Consistency-Related Communication in Distributed Shared Memory System

Willy Zwaenepoel

Distributed shared memory 8DSM) is an abstraction of shared memory on a distributed memory machine. Hardware DSM systems support this abstraction at the architecture level; software DSM systems support the abstraction within the runtime system. One of the ...

1995

Fine-grain access control for distributed shared memory

Babak Falsafi, James Richard Larus, David Wood

The paper discusses implementations of fine-grain memory access control, which selectively restricts reads and writes to cache-block-sized memory regions. Fine-grain access control forms the basis of efficient cache- coherent shared memory. The paper focus ...

1994

Cachier: A Tool for Automatically Inserting CICO Annotations

James Richard Larus

Shared memory in a parallel computer provides programmers with the valuable abstraction of a shared address space--through which any part of a computation can access any datum. Although uniform access simplifies programming, it also hides communication, wh ...

IEEE1994

Tempest and Typhoon: User-Level Shared Memory

James Richard Larus, David Wood

Future parallel computers must efficiently execute not only hand-coded applications but also programs written in high-level, parallel programming languages. Today’s machines limit these programs to a single communication paradigm, either message-passing or ...

ACM1994

Where is Time Spent in Message-Passing and Shared-Memory Programs?

James Richard Larus

Message passing and shared memory are two techniques parallel programs use for coordination and communication. This paper studies the strengths and weaknesses of these two mechanisms by comparing equivalent, well-written message-passing and shared-memory p ...

ACM1994

Software vs. Hardware Shared Memory Implementation: A Case Study

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sandhya Dwarkadas

We compare the performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors, our results are based on the execution of a set of application programs on ...

1994