Memory coherence in shared virtual memory systems
PODC '86 Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Implementation and performance of Munin
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The SPLASH-2 programs: characterization and methodological considerations
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Understanding application performance on shared virtual memory systems
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Hiding communication latency and coherence overhead in software DSMs
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Lazy release consistency for distributed shared memory
Lazy release consistency for distributed shared memory
Relaxed consistency and coherence granularity in DSM systems: a performance evaluation
PPOPP '97 Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
PPOPP '97 Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Design choices in the SHRIMP system: an empirical study
Proceedings of the 25th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
ISCA '99 Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Memory consistency and event ordering in scalable shared-memory multiprocessors
ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
LIDE: a simulation environment for shared virtual memory systems
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
The effects of communication parameters on end performance of shared virtual memory clusters
SC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Making Distributed Shared Memory Simple, Yet Efficient
HIPS '98 Proceedings of the High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments
Using Multicast and Multithreading to Reduce Communication in Software DSM Systems
HPCA '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Characterizing the Dynamic Behavior of Workload Execution in SVM systems
SBAC-PAD '04 Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
A Comparison Study of the HLRC-DU Protocol versus a HLRC Hardware Assisted Protocol
PDP '05 Proceedings of the 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
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Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) provides a low-cost and effective way to implement the shared-memory programming paradigm. SVMs utilize a number of concepts that include consistency models/protocols, sharing patterns, false sharing, and fragmentation issues. The range of issues encountered in an SVM introduces a level of complexity and presents a challenge to many SVM researchers.This paper presents a careful study of SVM systems focusing on how the workload characteristics can affect the performace of consistency protocols. This knowledge is used to propose a novel consistency protocol that improves the system performance.This paper pursues two main goals: (i) to illustrate how different SVM workload characteristics are interrelated, and (ii) to motivate the design of a new multiple-writer memory consistency protocol. To achieve the first goal, we provide a detailed workload characterization analysis and discussion on how consistency models and protocols work. To achieve the second goal, we describe a software-based SVM protocol that achieves better performance than a hardware protocol proposed in the literature. In some workloads, the speedup obtained over the baseline protocol is more than 20%.