| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L78734/01 |
| Title: |
EGOVISM: ENHANCED COMPILER-OPTIMISED VIRTUAL SHARED MEMORY FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL COMPUTING |
| Principal Investigator: |
O'Boyle, Professor M |
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Sch of Informatics |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1998 |
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30 September 2000 |
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17,337
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Parallel computers of increasing size are becoming ever more widely available as a potential means for achieving high performance for performance-critical applications. However, there is continuing debate about the best form of implementation (hardware-plus-software technology) for this purpose; in particular, the relative merits and problems of writing programs using the methods of `data-sharing' (in a single-address-space) versus `message-passing' (between multiple-address-spaces) are strongly disputed. This project will design, implement and demonstrate novel virtual shared memory (VSM) schemes which aim to achieve the advantages of both the above methods while eliminating their disadvantages. The work will firstly develop suitable formal models of (hardware/firmware) schemes for memory consistency. These models will then be used as a basis for design and implementation of compiler analysis and consequent selection (during parallel code generation) of the most appropriate options for a specific hardware/firmware platform. The efficiency of the resulting system will be assessed by means of extensive testing on a sample of performance-critical applications across a range of simulated and actual platforms. The research will be performed in collaboration with three research groups in closely associated with, leading computer system vendors.
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