A Shared Memory System for Fresh Breeze

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Schmidt, Brian W. (Brian William)
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SMS for Fresh Breeze
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Jack Dennis.
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Abstract
The Shared Memory System (SMS) for Fresh Breeze, a multiprocessor chip guided by modular programming principles, provides a global space from which all the fresh breeze processors access chunks of memory. The SMS supports the operations of: obtaining unique identifiers for new chunks; storing a chunk; accessing a chunk using its unique identifier; and incrementing or decrementing the reference count of a chunk. The SMS utilizes two levels of storage, a main storage component and many smaller clusters which connect to the Fresh Breeze processing chips. In this way the system attempts to achieve good performance at a low cost while remaining scalable to support many Fresh Breeze chips.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 54).
 
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2008
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46508
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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