Virtual Memory Mapped Network Interface for the SHRIMP Multicomputer (1994)
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| Venue: | IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE |
| Citations: | 241 - 24 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Blumrich94virtualmemory,
author = {Matthias A. Blumrich and Kai Li and Richard Alpert and Cezary Dubnicki and Edward W. Felten and Jonathan Sandberg},
title = {Virtual Memory Mapped Network Interface for the SHRIMP Multicomputer},
booktitle = {IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE},
year = {1994},
pages = {142--153},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
The network interfaces of existing multicomputers require a significant amount of software overhead to provide protection and to implement message passing protocols. This paper describes the design of a low-latency, high-bandwidth, virtual memory-mapped network interface for the SHRIMP multicomputer project at Princeton University. Without sacrificing protection, the network interface achieves low latency by using virtual memory mapping and write-latency hiding techniques, and obtains high bandwidth by providing a user-level block data transfer mechanism. We have implemented several message passing primitives in an experimental environment, demonstrating that our approach can reduce the message passing overhead to a few user-level instructions.
