Performance Evaluation of the Cray X1 Distributed Shared-Memory Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Thomas H. Dunigan Jr.;Jeffrey S. Vetter;James B. White III;Patrick H. Worley

  • Affiliations:
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory;Oak Ridge National Laboratory;Oak Ridge National Laboratory;Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Cray X1 supercomputer's distributed shared memory presents a 64-bit global address space that is directly addressable from every MSP with an interconnect bandwidth per computation rate of 1 byte/flop. Our results show that this high bandwidth and low latency for remote memory accesses translate into improved application performance on important applications.