One year ago, Luke Logan presented MegaMmap at SC'24, introducing a software distributed shared memory system that makes datasets larger than available DRAM accessible through familiar programming interfaces. The core problem it addresses has only grown more relevant since.
Presented at SC24 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis November 17 to 22, 2024 • Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Available Now MegaMmap is released as open-source software. Visit the GitHub repository (opens in a new tab)
At SC24, Luke Logan presented MegaMmap, a software-based distributed shared memory (DSM) technology that blurs the boundary between memory and storage. Developed by Luke Logan, Anthony Kougkas, and Xian-He Sun, MegaMmap lets data-intensive applications work with datasets larger than available DRAM through memory tiering, prefetching, and coherence optimization.
Luke Logan presenting MegaMmap research at SC24
The International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) lists "CARE Cache Management" by Xiaoyang Lu and Xian-He Sun of Illinois Institute of Technology among its Chip100 Top Chip Achievements for 2022-2023 (opens in a new tab). The list was online by December 7, 2023, the date of its earliest archived copy (opens in a new tab). BenchCouncil describes the evaluation report as open for comments and subject to revision.
