MemX: Virtualization of cluster-wide memory

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 663-672

  Deshpande, Umesh ^a   Wang, Beilan ^a   Haque, Shafee ^a   Hines, Michael ^a   Gopalan, Kartik ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LARGE DATASETS; LIVE MIGRATIONS; LOW-LATENCY; MEMORY APPLICATIONS; MEMORY FOOTPRINT; MEMORY USAGE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RECOMPILATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WIDE MEMORIES;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 78649551171     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2010.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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