Experience distributing objects in an SMMP OS

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Appavoo, Jonathan ^a,b   Da Silva, Dilma ^a,b   Krieger, Orran ^a,b   Auslander, Marc ^a,b   Ostrowski, Michal ^a,b   Rosenburg, Bryan ^a,b   Waterland, Amos ^a,b   Wisniewski, Robert W ^a,b   Xenidis, Jimi ^a,b   Stumm, Michael ^b   Soares, Livio ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Distribution; Locality; Scalability SMMP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCALABILITY;

LOCK CONTENTION; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT IMPLEMENTATIONS; SCALABLE SYSTEMS;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 34548348919     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1275517.1275518     Document Type: Article

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