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JavaScript is widely used for scripting on client side. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment, allowing Javascript to be used for building scalable network applications on server side. However, Node.js does not support parallel programming, making it difficult to enhance applications’ performance. Meanwhile, persistent memory (PM) shows optimistic prospects of being used in server-side applications, while few researches do exist in allowing script languages to support PM-based parallel programming. In this paper, we introduce SPMP, a JavaScript support for shared persistent memory on Node.js. With SPMP, each process needs to hold PersistentArrayBuffer, an object that is responsible for allocating, managing, and accessing persistent memory. Multiple processes can then share persistent memory and communicate each other by their PersistentArrayBuffer objects. Furthermore, SPMP supports dynamic load-balancing strategies and ensures data coherency, and also supports data persistence in a secondary storage. We have evaluated SPMP against Extended Memory Semantics (EMS, a state-of-the-art model for parallel programming on Node.js) on two data-intensive tasks. The results show that SPMP is \(100\sim 300\times \) faster than EMS on five basic operations, and \(2\times \) faster on complicated parallel computing tasks such as counting words, due to its particular way on memory allocation and mapping.
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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their feedbacks and suggestions. This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFB10033002) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61472241, 61572312). This work was also partially supported by Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization (No. 201701052).
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Zhang, Q., Li, T., Deng, P., Chen, Y., Huang, L., Rudoff, A. (2018). SPMP: A JavaScript Support for Shared Persistent Memory on Node.js. In: Vaidya, J., Li, J. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11335. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05054-2_28
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