Exploring Allocation Policies in Disaggregated Non-Volatile Memories
Vamsee Reddy Kommareddy, Amro Awad, Clayton Hughes, Simon David Hammond · 2018
Many modern applications have memory footprints that are increasingly large, driving system memory capacities higher and higher. However, due to the diversity of applications that run on High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, the memory utilization can fluctuate widely from one application to another, which results in underutilization issues when there are many jobs with small memory footprints. Since memory chips are collocated with the compute nodes, this necessitates the need for message passing APIs to be able to share information between nodes.