Paper Info
Title
A common framework for inter-process communication on a cluster
Abstract
Many implementations of distributed shared memories (DSMs) have been developed to date. All of the implementations have taken into consideration, the performance issues of DSM systems more than other issues like the portability of programs and API. DSM systems have APIs that fit a specific system and require a programmer's adaptation to that specific API. A migration between systems might require a significant revision of a program. Moreover, programmers who write programs for SMPs need to rewrite large portions of their programs in order to scale up their programs from SMP to a cluster of computers. We are presenting a concept for a distributed system, in which an API for any IPC mechanism will be identical, or very close to the SMP's conventional API. This concept can accustom programmers to a distributed system with ease, as well as improving the migration of existing SMP programs to distributed systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1031154.1031157
Operating Systems Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
ipc mechanism,performance issue,smp program,significant revision,common framework,conventional api,specific system,inter-process communication,large portion,dsm system,specific api,ipc,dsm,cluster,api,inter process communication,distributed shared memory,distributed system
Programmer,Shared memory,Computer science,Virtual memory,Distributed memory,Implementation,Software portability,Inter-process communication,Distributed shared memory,Operating system
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
38
4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mordechai Geva110.35
Yair Wiseman215814.60