Semiconductor Engineering

Distributed Shared Memory That Enlarges Effective Memory Capacity Through Intelligent Tiered DRAM and Storage Management (IIT)

A new technical paper titled “MegaMmap: Blurring the Boundary Between Memory and Storage for Data-Intensive Workloads” was published by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. “In this work, ...
news.ucsc

Computer engineer embarks on bold project for a new vision of distributed shared memory

Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...
Ars Technica

IPC: maintaining a list/map in shared/distributed memory in a Qt library on OS X

Here's a nice little problem/exercise: I'm working on a Qt library that needs to keep track of who's using a particular shared resource. If I were only to consider this in a single application, I'd ...
InfoQ

Zero-Copy In-Memory Sharing of Large Distributed Data: V6d

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
insideHPC

Apache® Ignite™ and Apache® Spark™: Complementary In-Memory Computing Solutions

Hadoop plug-n-play acceleration An in-memory distributed file system Shared in-memory RDDs for Spark Events and messaging Ignite supports high performance transactional, analytical, and hybrid ...
EDN

Shared-memory system increases throughput, not size

Applications driving the use of multiple embedded DSPs, network-processing units, or graphics chips require extremely high throughput without compromising silicon area. Increasingly, SOC ...