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The influence of several hash functions on the distribution of a shared address space onto p distributed memory modules is compared by simulations. Both synthetic workloads and address traces of applications are investigated. It turns out that on all workloads linear hash functions, although proven to be asymptotically worse, perform better than theoretically optimal polynomials of degree O(log p). The latter are also worse than hash functions that use boolean matrices. The performance measurements are done by an expected worst case analysis. Thus linear hash functions provide an efficient and easy to implement way to emulate shared memory.
This work was supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in SFB 124, TP D4, and by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) through NFI Project ALADDIN under Contract number NF 62-376. Part of this work was done while the second author was working at Universität des Saarlandes, Computer Science Department, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Engelmann, C., Keller, J. (1993). Simulation-based comparison of hash functions for emulated shared memory. In: Bode, A., Reeve, M., Wolf, G. (eds) PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56891-3_1
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