Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE)

TY - GEN

T1 - Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE)

AU - Larsen, Morten Nørgaard

AU - Skovhede, Kenneth

AU - Vinter, Brian

N1 - Conference code: 8

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - The CELL-BE processor provides high performance and has been shown to reach a performance close to the theoretical peak, however, the high performance comes at the price of a quite complex programming model. Central to the complexity of the CELL-BE programming model is the need to move data in and out of non-coherent local storage blocks for each special processor element. In this paper we present a software library, namely the Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE). By using techniques known from distributed shared memory DSMCBE allows programmers to program the CELL-BE with relative ease and in addition scale their applications to use multiple CELL-BE processors in a network. Performance experiments show that a quite high performance can be obtained with DSMCBE even in a cluster environment.

AB - The CELL-BE processor provides high performance and has been shown to reach a performance close to the theoretical peak, however, the high performance comes at the price of a quite complex programming model. Central to the complexity of the CELL-BE programming model is the need to move data in and out of non-coherent local storage blocks for each special processor element. In this paper we present a software library, namely the Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE). By using techniques known from distributed shared memory DSMCBE allows programmers to program the CELL-BE with relative ease and in addition scale their applications to use multiple CELL-BE processors in a network. Performance experiments show that a quite high performance can be obtained with DSMCBE even in a cluster environment.

U2 - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2009.40

DO - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2009.40

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-0-7695-3680-4

SP - 121

EP - 124

BT - Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing

PB - IEEE Computer Society Press

T2 - The 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Y2 - 25 May 2009 through 28 May 2009

ER -