Exploiting operating system support for dynamic page placement on a NUMA Shared Memory Multiprocessor

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 122-132

  LaRowe, Richard P ^a   Wilkes, James T ^a   Ellis, Carla Schlatter ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MEMORY MODELING; NON-UNIFORMITIES; NUMA ARCHITECTURES; OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT; PHYSICAL MEMORY; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78149251349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/109625.109639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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