Download D2.2 (WP2): Prototype Scalable Erlang VM

ICT-287510 (RELEASE) 10th April 2013
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Prototype Scalable Erlang VM Release
Konstantinos Sagonas <[email protected]>
David Klaftenegger <[email protected]>
Patrik Nyblom <[email protected]>
Nikolaos Papaspyrou <[email protected]>
Katerina Roukounaki <[email protected]>
Kjell Winblad <[email protected]>
Contents
1 Executive Summary
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2 Introduction
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3 Scalable Erlang Term Storage
3.1 Global Data Structures and Locking in ETS . . . . . . . .
3.2 Scalability Problems of the Original ETS Implementation
3.3 Scaling ETS Using Fine Grained Locking . . . . . . . . .
3.4 Scaling the ETS Implementation Further . . . . . . . . .
3.5 Current Status and Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4 Efficient Tracing Support for Profiling and Monitoring
4.1 DTrace/SystemTap Support in Erlang/OTP . . . . . . . .
4.2 A Brief Introduction to DTrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3 Build Support for Dynamic Tracing . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.4 Virtual Machine Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.5 Support for Probes in Erlang Code . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.6 Support for DTrace Tags in Erlang Code and in Probes .
4.7 Profiling in Erlang using DTrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.8 Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5 Preliminary Port of Erlang/OTP to Blue
5.1 Blue Gene/Q Architecture . . . . . . . . .
5.2 Porting Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3 Current Port Status . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.4 Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6 Concluding Remarks
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A The erl-xcomp-powerpc64-bgq-linux.conf Configuration File
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