Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE)

Morten Nørgaard Larsen; Kenneth Skovhede; Brian Vinter

doi:doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2009.40

Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE)

Morten Nørgaard Larsen, Kenneth Skovhede, Brian Vinter

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Number of pages	3
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press
Publication date	2009
Pages	121-124
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-3680-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2009.40
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	The 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing - Lissabon, Portugal Duration: 25 May 2009 → 28 May 2009 Conference number: 8

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Conference	The 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Number	8
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lissabon
Period	25/05/2009 → 28/05/2009

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Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE). / Larsen, Morten Nørgaard; Skovhede, Kenneth; Vinter, Brian.

Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009. p. 121-124.

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Larsen, MN, Skovhede, K & Vinter, B 2009, Distributed Shared Memory for the Cell Broadband Engine (DSMCBE). in Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 121-124, The 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Lissabon, Portugal, 25/05/2009. https://doi.org/doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2009.40

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