Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

This paper addresses the problem of providing a parallel virtual memory system with an efficient swap file structure. It thas been observed, experimentally, that the way data is organized in a parallel I/O environment greatly influences the I/O performance [9,6]. Thereforem if virtual memory is to be implemented in parallel machienes, its disk swap space organization will be one of the key factors determining the virtual memory stystem's efficiency.We analyze different parallel file organiations in order to determine which one better suits the needs of a parallel virtual memory system.

Simulation results collected thus far indicate that the best strategy is to assign to each I/O node data that will be utilized mostly by neighbor processors. We observed that this approach better load balances I/O requests among I/O nodes and better explores inter-processor locality.