Performance and transparency of message passing and DSM services within the GENESIS operating system for managing parallelism on COWs

Proceedings - 8th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, EURO-PDP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 110-117

  Goscinski, A ^a   Hobbs, M ^a   Silcock, J ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed Shared Memory; Message Passing; Parallel Processing on COWs; Parallelism Management; Performance Evaluation

Indexed keywords

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; TRANSPARENCY;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMERS; CLUSTERS OF WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 0008744926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.2000.823401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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