vGASNet: A PGAS Communication Library Supporting Out-of-Core Processing

[1] Chan and Igual, Runtime Data Flow Graph Scheduling of Matrix Computations with Multiple Hardware Accelerators, FW Note, 50 (1996) [2] Dahlin et al., Cooperative Caching: Using Remote Client Memory to Improve File System Performance, in Proc. of OSDI ’94 [3] AMD, AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Vol.2 System Programming. [4] Kanter, The Common System Interface: Intel’s Future Interconnect, Real World Tech 5. u SSD is much slower than DRAM. u Under vGASNet, each node has their own cache pool on DRAM. u Page-based cache u Reducing the amount of accesses to the SSDs, vGASNet adopts cooperative caching mechanism. u Using not only local caches but also remote caches. u Firstly implemented in a distributed file system [2]. Performance evaluation