PVM: a framework for parallel distributed computing
Concurrency: Practice and Experience
The SPLASH-2 programs: characterization and methodological considerations
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Eliminating barrier synchronization for compiler-parallelized codes on software DSMs
International Journal of Parallel Programming - Special issue on languages and compilers for parallel computing. Part I
The Augmint multiprocessor simulation toolkit for Intel x86 architectures
ICCD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Computer Design, VLSI in Computers and Processors
Strings: A High-Performance Distributed Shared Memory for Symmetrical Multiprocessor Clusters
HPDC '98 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
TreadMarks: distributed shared memory on standard workstations and operating systems
WTEC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
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Distributed shared memory (DSM) systems have become popular as a means of utilizing clusters of computers for solving large applications. We have developed a high-performance DSM, Strings. In addition, to improve the performance of our DSM, a memory hierarchy simulator has been developed that allows us to compare various techniques very quickly and with much less effort. This paper describes our simulator, DSMSim. We show that the simulator's performance closely matches the real system and demonstrate potential performance gains of up to 60% after adding optimization features to the simulator. The simulator also accepts the same code as the software distributed shared memory.