Compile/Run-Time Support for Thread Migration
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Fault-Tolerant Distributed Shared Memory on a Broadcast-Based Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Distributed Shared Arrays: An Integration of Message Passing and Multithreading on SMP Clusters
The Journal of Supercomputing
Simulation tools to study a distributed shared memory for clusters of symmetric multiprocessors
Future Generation Computer Systems
A Transparent Distributed Shared Memory for Clustered Symmetric Multiprocessors
The Journal of Supercomputing
Overcoming performance bottlenecks in using OpenMP on SMP clusters
Parallel Computing
Simulation tools to study a distributed shared memory for clusters of symmetric multiprocessors
Future Generation Computer Systems
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This paper introduces Strings, a high performance distributed shared memory system designed for clusters of symmetrical multiprocessors (SMPs). The distinguishing feature of this system is the use of a fully multi-threaded runtime system, written using POSIX threads. Strings also allows multiple application threads to be run on each node in a cluster. Since most modern UNIX systems can multiplex these threads on kernel level light weight processes, applications written using Strings can use all the processors in a SMP machine. This paper describes some of the architectural details of the system and analyzes the performance improvements with two example programs and a few benchmark programs from the SPLASH-2 suite.