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The page aggregation technique consists of considering a larger granularity unit than a page, in a page-based DSM system. In this paper an initial evaluation of the inuence of the page aggregation technique in the speedup of a DSM system is done, by applying it in two DSMs: JIAJIA and Nautilus. TreadMarks, a DSM well known by the scientific community, is also included in this comparison as a reference for optimal speedups. Different granularity sizes are considered in this study: 4kB, 8kB, 16kB and 32kB. The benchmarks evaluated in this study are SOR (from Rice University), LU and Water N-Squared (both from SPLASH-II). The first results show that this technique can improve the JIAJIA’s speedup by up to 4.1% and the Nautilus’s speedup by up to 37.7%.
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Donato, M., Lino, G. (2000). An Evaluation of Page Aggregation Technique on Different DSM Systems. In: Valero, M., Joe, K., Kitsuregawa, M., Tanaka, H. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISHPC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39999-2_12
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