MigThread: Thread migration in DSM systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 581-588

  Jiang, Hai ^a   Chaudhary, V ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cradle Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive parallel computing; compile time code transformations; Software Distributed Shared Memory; thread migration; thread scheduling

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COSINE TRANSFORMS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTITASKING;

COMPILE TIME; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY SYSTEMS; NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; THREAD MIGRATION; THREAD SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84954467747     PISSN: 15302016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPPW.2002.1039780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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