Memory request / grant daemons in virtual nodes for moving subdivided local memory space from VN to VN in nodes of a massively parallel computer system

A memory management mechanism a nodal having multiple processors in a massively parallel computer system dynamically configures nodal memory on demand. A respective variable-sized subdivision of nodal memory is associated with each processor in the node. A processor may request additional memory, an...

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Main Authors KOLZ DANIEL PAUL, PATEL DHARMESH J, GORACKE NICHOLAS BRUCE, BRYANT JAY SYMMES
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 23.09.2008
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A memory management mechanism a nodal having multiple processors in a massively parallel computer system dynamically configures nodal memory on demand. A respective variable-sized subdivision of nodal memory is associated with each processor in the node. A processor may request additional memory, and the other processor(s) may grant or veto the request. If granted, the requested memory is added to the subdivision of the requesting processor. A processor can only access memory within its own subdivision. Preferably, each subdivision contains a daemon which monitors memory usage and generates requests for additional memory.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20060463079