| [1] | Hermann Hellwagner, Wolfgang Karl, Markus Leberecht, Fast Communication Mechanisms--Coupling Hardware Distributed Shared Memory and User-Level Messaging, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, 1997: PDPTA (Hamid R Arabnia, ed.), CSREA Press, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 8, 1997.
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Abstract: Low latencies for small messages are an important factor of efficient fine-grained parallel computation. The Active Messages concept provides this minimal overhead by eliminating certain parts of the critical path of sending and receiving messages, that is the context switch into the operating system kernel when using user-mode I/O, and multiple buffering in the network layer. Hardware-supported distributed shared memory (DSM) architectures exhibit various properties that make them particularly useful for an implementation of the aforementioned messaging mechanisms. This paper thus describes the concept, implementation, and the performance of a DSM-based Active Messages layer.
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