JumboMem is a fully user-level piece of software that gives programs access to memory spread across multiple computers. When a program exceeds the memory in one computer, it automatically spills over into the memory of the next computer.
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JumboMem has finally been released! JumboMem gives unmodified binaries access to memory spread across multiple computers. When a program exceeds the memory in one computer, it automatically starts using the memory of the next computer. Because JumboMem is an entirely user-level program, all you need is an account on a workstation cluster with a fast network and you'll be ready to go. As an example, JumboMem has been used to run an interactive GNU Octave session on a cluster with 256 nodes and a total of 1 terabyte of RAM. In that session, multiplying a 65,536*65,536-element matrix by a 65,536-element vector took only 6 minutes. In contrast, the same operation took 1 hour 43 minutes when using ordinary paging to local disk instead of JumboMem. Read more about JumboMem at http://jumbomem.sourceforge.net/ or download it now from http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=209750.
* 2007-11-08 Scott Pakin - Initial release
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