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WildFire : A Scalable Path for SMPs

WildFire : A Scalable Path for SMPs. Erick Hagersten and Michael Koster Sun Microsystems Inc. Presented by Terry Arnold II. Introduction. What was the goal? How did they achieve it? CMR HAS Competitive Comparisons Results Questions. The Goal.

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WildFire : A Scalable Path for SMPs

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  1. WildFire: A Scalable Path for SMPs Erick Hagersten and Michael Koster Sun Microsystems Inc. Presented by Terry Arnold II

  2. Introduction • What was the goal? • How did they achieve it? • CMR • HAS • Competitive Comparisons • Results • Questions

  3. The Goal • In the past people have been skeptical about the ability of SMPs to continue to scale due to their bandwidth limitations • The trend has been to switch to cc-NUMA • To improve the scalability of SMP technologies

  4. Cc-NUMA issues • Great scalability but have less than optimal “access patterns” • Require high software optimization for capacity and conflict misses • Non trivial scheduling, etc. (resource and memory management)

  5. How? • The answer is the same as the answer to all engineering problems, that is, throwing new acronyms at the problem • Coherent Memory Replication (CMR) • Hierarchical Affinity Scheduling (HAS) • Both of these exploit locality as a means of increasing performance (that is for OLTP workloads)

  6. The Overview

  7. The Acronyms: CMR • S-COMA with fixed home locations for each address • Shadow physical pages • Coherence at hardware level (64 byte) • Things start out cc-NUMA and changed into CMR based on hardware counters that monitor memory access patterns • Limitations – memory-resident pages and large physical pages can only be replicated explicitly

  8. The Acronyms: HAS • Schedules in the following way: • Last processor it ran on • Same node processor • Remote node processor (when load balances exceeds “threshold”)

  9. Implementation • 2 ASICs – NIAC (coherence), NIDC (bit sliced interconnect) • These improve upon latency of a switch • NIAC – Interface and Global-Coherence Layer • Translators and Counters

  10. Competition • The SGI Origin and Sequent’s NUMA-Q

  11. Results 1

  12. Results 2

  13. Questions? Is this “solution” too dependent on the software (kernel modifications)? How compatible are CMR and HAS with the other DSM solutions?

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