DASH and SHRIMP

• DASH

  • Hardware implementation of shared memory
  • Snooping bus protocol for small number of processors
  • Finer-grain parallelism

• SHRIMP

  • One version using the Intel Paragon backplane bus
    • Snoops on the PM bus
    • Automatic updates
  • Another version using Myricoms Gbit Myrinet
  • Virtual Memory Mapped Communication (VMMC)
    • 4 microseconds latency user space-user space

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