Design and Practice on iVCE for Memory System

Abstract

As one of the components in iVCE software platform, iVCE/M devotes to the performance improvement of the I/O-intensive and memory-intensive applications with efficient aggregation of distributed memory resources. To facilitate the deployment of iVCE/M, the data locating algorithm with balanced time and space cost, as well as the transparent interface for the legacy applications without code modification, are both significant in the implementation of iVCE/M. We propose the logarithmic search tree based client-side metadata structure to accelerate the data locating using moderate memory consumption, the implicit I/O redirection mechanism, and the implementation of iVCE/M based disk cache system. The experiments with cross domain emulation prove that the scheme is applicable to exploit the distributed memory resources for applications with small granularity I/O accesses.