We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and ...

To look at shared memory on a Linux system, you can try the ipcs command. This command is available on both Linux and Solaris systems, but your options will vary.

An excerpt from Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals explaining memory management and the Linux/Unix address space.

Silicon Graphics is behind the world's largest shared-memory Linux system, a 512-processor behemoth at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Resources for “Memory Ordering in Modern Microprocessors, Part I” Software by Paul E. McKenney on June 28, 2005 ...