Scalable Cache Coherence Protocols Are Essential For Multiprocessor Systems

Blocks are the logical records which breaks the area used by a partition; clusters are physical bodies of a hard disk. Hard disk is usually broken in to cylinders and cylinders are broken down in to clusters. Most HDD arrive from the factory with a low level pattern where, block size = 512 bytes. The NTFS file system can produce cluster sizes of a multiple of 512 having a default of 8 blocks for every cluster. Size of a block is multiple of size of cluster, such that a logical block will fit a definite number of physical clusters “one file one cluster”. That is, in every cluster will be installed information belonging at most to a single file. As an aftermath, when scripting a file in a hard disk, some cluster remains incompletely filled or fully unused. As the operating system can only write an entire block, it pursues that the idle space should be fit with some strings of bytes that can be used by others. It should be remembered that these data are saved in a disk because of the operating system curbs to write only on an entire block, they could be detected by locating

Memory segmentation is the division of a computer's primary memory information into sections. Segments are applied in object records of compiled programs when linked together into a program image and when the image is loaded into the memory. Segmentation sights a logical address as a collection of segments. Each segment has a name and length. With the addresses specifying both the segment name and the offset within the segment. Therefore the user specifies each address by two quantities: a segment name and an offset. When compared to the paging scheme, the user specifies a single address, which is partitioned by the hardware into a page number and an offset, all invisible to the programmer. Memory segmentation is more visible

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In this report the author provides quantifiable results that show the available parallelism. The report defines various terminologies like Instruction Level parallelism, dependencies, Branch Prediction, Data Cache Latency, Jump prediction, Memory-address alias analysis etc. used clearly. A total of eighteen test programs with seven models have been examined and the results show significant effects of the variations on the standard models. The seven models reflect parallelism that is available by various compiler/architecture techniques like branch prediction, register renaming etc. The lack of branch prediction means that it finds intra-block

-Each mapped page uses the file itself as a backing store. Unmapped memory uses a scratch file or partition as backing store.

Abstract. In this report I will introduce the Memcached technology and provide more details about it. In addition, I will explain how it works and how it differs than relational database technology. Furthermore, I will use the finding of the paper “Performance Evaluation of a Clustered Memcached” to present how Memcached can improve the performance of the web applications. The paper that I did study is about a simulation project of using three different architectures of Memcached. The simulation results will monitor the CPU and RAM usability of all the nodes in these three architectures. I will explain the results and will discuss the findings of their results.

3. Consider a distributed file system that does client caching using write through. The system caches individual blocks, rather than entire files. Can the client in this system have a cache consistency problem? If so, suggest two possible solutions.

To avoid any ambiguity, we note again that each server and driver runs as a separate user process with its own address space completely disjoint from the address spaces of the kernel and other servers, drivers, and user processes. In our design, processes do not share any virtual address space and can only communicate with each other using the IPC mechanisms that are provided by the kernel. This point is crucial to the reliability as it prevents faults in one server or driver from spreading to a different one, in exactly the same way that a bug in a compilation going on in one process cannot affect what a browser in a different process is doing.

In this paper, you 'll learn precisely what virtual storage is, what your pc uses it for and the way to piece it on your own machine to realize optimum performance.

The Linux file system is ordered in a structured hierarchically tree. This file system is a tree shaped structure, where the root of the tree is called the file system root and beneath the root are directories. The root of the file system is usually stored on the partition of a disk and combing one partition with the file system is known as mounting a file system. …….. The Linux architecture handles all of the types of files by hiding the implementation details of any single file type behind a certain layer of software, which is called the VFS or virtual file system. The standard file system that is on-disk is called ext3. The ext3 file system is partitioned into multiple segments that are termed block groups. Ext3 first selects the block group for the file when it starts allocating. Within each block group it tries to keep allocations physically contiguous and reduces fragmentation if possible. It also maintain a bitmap of all free blocks within a certain block group. Whenever a free block is identified, the search is extended backwards until an allocated block is found.

Abstract—Scale-out workloads are applications that are typically executed in a cloud environment and exhibit high level of request level parallelism. Such workloads benefit from processor organizations with very high core count since multiple requests can be serviced simultaneously by threads running on these cores. The characteristics of these workloads indicate that they have high instruction footprints exceeding the capacities of private caches, operate on large datasets with limited reuse and have minimal coherence activity due to lesser data sharing. The characteristics also indicate that the active instruction window can be captured by a Last Level Cache (LLC) size of 8MB. New processor organizations have been discussed in literature that tailors the interconnection among cores to match the communication pattern arising out of the characteristics of scale-out workloads. The focus of the current work is to take the approach of separating a core and LLC bank from a single tile as specified in literature and design a different interconnection topology for cores and LLC banks to reduce the latency of accessing the LLC to improve performance. In the current work, four cores and a LLC bank are designed to connect to a router forming a star topology and the routers (>4) are designed to form a 2D flattened butterfly topology. The current design has been targeted at 8 cores and has been implemented using the Bluespec System Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language) and the

The tremendous increase of system concurrency from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions will be a big challenge for system software to manage and for applications to get good performance at this level of parallelism. As we all know that almost all of today’s large-scale applications use the message-passing programming model (MPI) together with traditional sequential languages (C, Fortran, C++), but the new architectures with many cores per chip and parallelism in the millions will make this programming model more problematic and less productive in the future. Thus a new approach is needed. Like

Abstract – Many multiprocessor chips and computer systems today have hardware that supports shared-memory. This is because shared-memory multicore chips are considered a cost-effective way of providing increased and improved computing speed and power since they utilize economically interconnected low-cost microprocessors. Shared-memory multiprocessors utilize cache to reduce memory access latency and significantly reduce bandwidth needs for the global interconnect and local memory module. However, a problem still exists in these systems: cache coherence problem introduced by local caching of data, which leads to reduced processor execution speeds. The problem of cache coherence in hardware is reduced in today’s microprocessors through the implementation of various cache coherence protocols. This article reviews literature on cache coherence with particular attention to cache coherence problem, and the protocols-both hardware and software that have been proposed to solve it. Most importantly, it identifies a specific problem associated with cache coherence and proposes a novel solution.

HPC (high performance computing) frameworks are based on both software and hardware platforms. The mechanism called fault tolerance is nothing but process which allows system (frequently software based) to continue working properly in case of failure of its components (one or more faults) on MPI (message passing interface). In HPC systems like grid computing, cloud computing etc. fault tolerance method highly applicable in order to ensure that long operating applications are finished their tasks according to time. Therefore, there are different types of fault tolerance methods introduced in literature.

Abstract: Hashing is the convenient way to get access to an item based on the given key which is the requirement for efficient buffer cache management. Static hashing provides fastest access to an object at the cost of memory utilization, whereas sequential storage provides most efficient memory utilization at the cost of access time. To provide balance between two extremes dynamic hashing schemes are produced. The focus of this paper is to survey various dynamic hashing schemes with perspective to use it in database buffer cache management. It includes dynamic hashing techniques like Extendible hashing, Expandable Hashing, Spiral Storage, Linear