ISCA '88 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Symposium on Computer architecture
Page table management in local/remote architectures
ICS '88 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Supercomputing
A mean-value performance analysis of a new multiprocessor architecture
SIGMETRICS '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Reference history, page size, and migration daemons in local/remote architectures
ASPLOS III Proceedings of the third international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Simple but effective techniques for NUMA memory management
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Analysis of critical architectural and programming parameters in a hierarchical
SIGMETRICS '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
NUMA policies and their relation to memory architecture
ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
SIGMETRICS '91 Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
PPOPP '91 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Experimental comparison of memory management policies for NUMA multiprocessors
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The robustness of NUMA memory management
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Page placement for non-uniform memory access time (NUMA) shared memory multiprocessors
Page placement for non-uniform memory access time (NUMA) shared memory multiprocessors
Adaptive software cache management for distributed shared memory architectures
ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
An Analysis of Dynamic Page Placement on a NUMA Multiprocessor
An Analysis of Dynamic Page Placement on a NUMA Multiprocessor
Scheduling and resource management techniques for multiprocessors
Scheduling and resource management techniques for multiprocessors
Hot spot analysis in large scale shared memory multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Evaluation of NUMA Memory Management Through Modeling and Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
HP scalable computing architecture
WIESS'00 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software - Volume 1
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The class of NUMA (nonuniform memory access time) shared memory architectures is becoming increasingly important with the desire for larger scale multiprocessors. In such machines, the placement and movement of code and data are crucial to performance. The operating system can play a role in managing placement through the policies and mechanisms of the virtual memory subsystem. In this paper, we develop an analytic model of memory system performance of a Local/Remote NUMA architecture based on approximate mean-value analysis techniques. The model assumes that a simple workload model based on a few parameters can often provide insight into the general behavior of real applications. The model is validated against experimental data obtained with the DUnX operating system kernel for the BBN GP1000 while running a synthetic workload. The results of this validation show that in general, model predictions are quite good, though in some cases the model fails to include the effect of unexpected behaviors in the implementation. Experiments investigate the effectiveness of dynamic multiple-copy page placement. We investigate the cost of incorrect policy decisions by introducing different percentages of policy error and measuring their effect on performance.