A Remote Memory Swapping System for Cluster Computers

Authors:
Paul Werstein;Xiangfei Jia;Zhiyi Huang
Affiliations:
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Venue:
PDCAT '07 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper describes the use of remote memory for vir- tual memory swapping in a cluster computer. Our design uses a lightweight kernel-to-kernel communications chan- nel for fast, efficient data transfer. Performance tests are made to compare our system to normal hard disk swap- ping. The tests show significantly improved performance when data access is random.