Scalable and high-performance shared object storage using non-coherent disaggregated memory

A computer system including a first computer and a second computer, wherein the first and second computers each includes a processor and local memory, the processor of the first computer executing instructions stored in the local memory of the first computer to access data stored in a memory system remotely from the first and second computers, by performing the following steps:

• determining a first key associated with first data that is stored in the memory system;
• determining, based on the first key, to transmit to the second computer, a request for a first reference to the first data, and then transmitting the request for the first reference to the second computer, wherein the request for the first reference includes the first key;
• receiving the first reference from the second computer, which the second computer determines by using the first key to locate a first key-reference pair in the memory system and then reading the first reference from the first key-reference pair;
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• reading the first data directly from the memory system using the first reference received from the second computer to locate a memory address of the first data in the memory system.