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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets

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Published on: February 6, 2014

Disk caching with an optical ring.

E V Carrera¹, R Bianchini

¹Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA. vinicio@cs.rutgers.edu

|March 21, 2008

Summary

We introduce an optical ring network to optimize page swapping in scalable multiprocessors. This system enhances performance through faster page swaps and effective victim caching, benefiting both optical and traditional electronic networks.

Area of Science:

Computer Architecture
Parallel Processing
Optical Networking

Background:

Scalable multiprocessors often face performance bottlenecks due to page swap operations.
Efficient data transfer and caching are crucial for optimizing memory management in parallel systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and evaluate a novel optical ring network extension for optimizing page swap outs in scalable multiprocessors.
To assess the performance benefits of this optical ring as a systemwide write cache and staging area.

Main Methods:

Detailed execution-driven simulations of out-of-core parallel applications on an eight-node scalable multiprocessor.
Evaluation of the optical ring's impact on performance metrics related to page swapping and caching.
Assessment of the optical ring's effectiveness in a traditional mesh-connected multiprocessor with electronic networks.

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Main Results:

The proposed optical ring consistently improves performance, primarily through accelerated page swap outs and effective victim caching.
The optical ring demonstrates significant performance gains in both optically interconnected and traditional electronic mesh-connected multiprocessors.
Consistent performance improvements were observed across various out-of-core parallel applications.

Conclusions:

The optical ring extension is a highly efficient solution for optimizing page swap outs in scalable multiprocessors.
The benefits of the optical ring are substantial and applicable to a wide range of out-of-core parallel applications.
Caching data using an optical ring shows promise for improving other types of disk-write traffic.