Generalized shared memory in a cluster architecture for a computer system.

摘要

Cluster architectures are improved by introducing a Generalized Shared Memory, which is maintained in a consistent state by a hardware-based coherency mechanism that operates on shared objects, wherever they happen to be located. This increases both the performance and the versatility of the architectures by permitting the composition of private vs. shared memory to be of arbitrary size and dynamically variable on different computer nodes in the cluster. <IMAGE>