Solving Large Full Sets of Linear Equations in a Paged Virtual Store
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
Organizing matrices and matrix operations for paged memory systems
Communications of the ACM
Large-scale computing on clustered vector multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 1990 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Adaptive storage management for very large virtual/real storage systems
ISCA '91 Proceedings of the 18th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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Virtual storage management allows an efficient use of computer memory through the cooperative actions of the computer hardware and the operating system which are completely transparent to application programs. However, when program data exceed the available memory space, the program elapsed time may be dominated by the time spent in paging I/O operations. The data transfer rate, as determined by the operating system implementation of demand paging, may be small when compared with the maximum I/O bandwidth that the I/O hardware could support.Page-ahead is a technique which complements the operating system support of demand paging on virtual storage systems in order to exploit the regularity and predictability which is typical of the data access pattern of large engineering and scientific (E/S) application programs. Application programs may exploit this regularity by using page-ahead to request paging operations from the operating system in anticipation of future needs and take full advantage of the operating systems I/O bandwidth to auxiliary paging store.