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In this document we make a brief review of memory management and DMA considerations in case of common SCI hardware and the Virtual Interface Architecture. On this basis we expose our ideas for an improved memory management of a hardware combining the positive characteristics of both basic technologies in order to get one completely new design rather than simply adding one to the other. The described memory management concept provides the opportunity of a real zero-copy transfer for Send-Receive operations by keeping full flexibility and efficiency of a nodes’ local memory management system. From the resulting hardware we expect a very good system throughput for message passing applications even if they are using a wide range of message sizes.
Daniel Balkanski and Stanislav Simeonov are from the Burgas Free University, Bulgaria.
The work presented in this paper is sponsored by the SMWK/SMWA Saxony ministries (AZ:7531.50-03-0380-98/6). It is also carried out in strong interaction with the project GRANT SFB393/B6 of the DFG (German National Science Foundation).
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Trams, M., Rehm, W., Balkanski, D., Simeonov, S. (2000). Memory Management in a combined VIA/SCI Hardware. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPDPS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45591-4_2
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