Fluid memory for high performance computing applications

Abstract

Examples of the presently disclosed technology provide new memory management systems and methods that improve dynamic memory region utilization by: (1) creating a new class/type of dynamic memory regions—i.e., 'fluid' dynamic memory regions—that are automatically relinquished to a free pool of dynamic memory regions upon expiration of a “fluid memory validity time interval;” and (2) responsive to requests for dynamic memory regions, allocating “fluid” dynamic memory regions when levels of importance for data to be stored in the requested dynamic memory regions fall below a “data-oriented priority-fluidity threshold.”