Title
Design and implementation of PVM-based portable distributed shared memory system on the workstation cluster environment
Abstract
Cluster of workstations or personal computers connected with high speed network has become one of major architectures of distributed memory parallel computers. However, software on the cluster environment is still not improved in performance. In particular, there has not been proposed a standard distributed shared memory mechanism on the cluster environment. The distributed shared memory can be a solution of programming style on distributed memory parallel system including clusters because we know from experiences that shared memory model makes programming easy. It must be implemented with care for the performance problem because we cannot assume any hardware support for shared memory system in the cluster environment. Another, but serious problem is the portability. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of portable distributed shared memory system. Our shared memory system is based on PVM in consideration of portability. Our contribution in this paper is the design and implementation of portable shared memory system on the cluster environment using faithful implementation of active messages fully in software, together with an enhancement of PVM to support active messages.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/ICPADS.1997.652602
ICPADS
Keywords
Field
DocType
memory system,active message,shared memory system,workstation cluster environment,memory parallel system,faithful implementation,portable shared memory system,pvm-based portable,memory parallel computer,cluster environment,memory mechanism,shared memory model,computer networks,concurrent computing,software performance,portability,virtual machines,workstations,distributed shared memory,computer architecture,distributed computing,parallel systems,microcomputers,parallel computer,parallel programming,shared memory,distributed memory
Computer architecture,Supercomputer architecture,Uniform memory access,Shared memory,Computer science,Distributed memory,Data diffusion machine,Memory management,Memory map,Distributed shared memory,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-8227-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroyuki Sato100.34
Takeshi Nanri2117.89
masaaki shimasaki38428.46