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R. Belli, T. Hoefler:
	Notified Access: Extending Remote Memory Access Programming Models for Producer-Consumer Synchronization (In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'15), presented in Hyderabad, India, pages , IEEE, ISBN: , May 2015, ) Best Paper at IPDPS'15 (4/108) Publisher Reference Abstract Remote Memory Access (RMA) programming enables direct access to low-level hardware features to achieve high performance for distributed-memory programs. However, the design of RMA programming schemes focuses on the memory access and less on process synchronization. For example, in contemporary RMA programming systems, the widely used producer-consumer pattern can only be implemented inefficiently, incurring the overhead of an additional round-trip message. We propose Notified Access, a scheme where the target process of an access can receive a completion notification. This scheme enables direct and efficient synchronization with a minimum number of messages. We implement our scheme in an open source MPI-3 RMA library and demonstrate lower overheads (two cache misses) than other point-to-point synchronization mechanisms. We also evaluate our implementation on three real-world benchmarks: a stencil computation, a tree computation, and a Cholesky factorization implemented with tasks. Our scheme always performs better than traditional message passing and other existing RMA synchronization schemes, providing up to 50% speedup on small messages. Our analysis shows that Notified Access is a valuable primitive for any RMA system. Furthermore, we provide guidance for the design of low-level network interfaces to support Notified Access efficiently. Documents download article: download slides:
	BibTeX
@inproceedings{notified-access,   author={Roberto Belli and Torsten Hoefler},   title={{Notified Access: Extending Remote Memory Access Programming Models for Producer-Consumer Synchronization}},   year={2015},   month={05},   pages={},   booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Parallel \& Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'15)},   location={Hyderabad, India},   publisher={IEEE},   isbn={},   note={}, }