An Integrated Hardware/Software Solution for Effective Management of Local Storage in High-Performance Systems.
Elana D. Granston, Alexander V. Veidenbaum · 1991
The potential of high-performance systems, especially vector and parallel machines, is generally limited by the bandwidth between processors and memory. To achieve the performance of which these machines should be capable, greater emphasis must be placed on optimizing array accesses. We propose a practical, integrated hardware/software strategy for increasing the effectiveness of local storage management. Our scheme provides many of the advantages of both compile-time and run-time memory management techniques. In this paper, we describe our local storage facility: the priority data cache. We also describe compile-time techniques for easily and effectively utilizing this level of local storage. 1 Introduction The potential of high-performance systems is generally limited by the bandwidth between processors and memory. To achieve the performance of which these machines should be capable, greater emphasis must be placed on optimizing array accesses. At compile time, many safe and profita...