A portion of the global memory of a multiprocessing computer system is
allocated to each node, called local memory space. Data from a remote node
may be copied to local memory space of a node such that accesses to the
data may be performed locally rather than globally. The global address of
the data is translated to a local physical address for the node to which
the data is copied. To reduce the size of the translation tables for
converting between global addresses and local physical addresses, multiple
pages of the address space are mapped to an entry in a translation table.
To decrease the probability that an entry is not available for a page, the
translation table may be implemented as a skewed-associative cache that
implements an insertion algorithm that realigns the translations in the
table to maximize the utilization of the available entries is implemented.