Enabling high-performance memory migration for multithreaded applications on linux

IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Goglin, Brice ^a   Furmento, Nathalie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS PATTERNS; DECISION CRITERIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; LU FACTORIZATION; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MICROBENCHMARKS; MULTI-THREADED APPLICATION; NON UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS; PERFORMANCE DATA; POLICY MODEL; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE;

DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450079694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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