The SPLASH-2 programs: characterization and methodological considerations
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Data prefetching for software DSMs
ICS '98 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Supercomputing
Selective, accurate, and timely self-invalidation using last-touch prediction
Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
A Low Overhead Logging Scheme for Fast Recovery in Distributed Shared Memory Systems
The Journal of Supercomputing
Coherence-Based Coordinated Checkpointing for Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Inferential queueing and speculative push
International Journal of Parallel Programming - Special issue I: The 17th annual international conference on supercomputing (ICS'03)
Checkpointing speculative distributed shared memory
PPAM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics
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This paper discusses a way of incorporating speculation techniques into Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems with checkpointing mechanism without creating unnecessary checkpoints. Speculation is a general technique involving prediction of the future of a computation, namely accesses to shared objects unavailable on the accessing node (read faults). Thanks to such predictions objects can be pushed to requesting nodes before the actual access operation is performed, resulting, at least potentially, in a considerable performance improvement. This mechanism is a foundation for the proposed SpecCkpt protocol based on independent checkpointing integrated with a coherence protocol for a given consistency model introducing little overhead. It ensures the consistency of checkpoints, at the same time allowing a fast recovery from failures.