Section: New Software and Platforms

NumaGIC

Functional Description

NumaGiC is a version of the HotSpot garbage collector (GC) adapted to many-core computers with very large main memories. In order to maximise GC throughput, it manages the trade-off between memory locality (local scans) and parallelism (work stealing) in a self-balancing manner. Furthemore, the collector features several memory placement heuristics that improve locality.

• Participants: Lokesh Gidra, Marc Shapiro, Julien Sopena and Gaël Thomas

• Contact: Lokesh Gidra

• URL: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/transgc/