VNUMA: A virtual shared-memory multiprocessor

Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 15-28

  Chapman, Matthew ^a,b   Heiser, Gernot ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Open Kernel Labs

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGACY SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; HYPERVISOR; LEGACY APPLICATIONS; SMALL CLUSTERS; STANDARD PROTOCOLS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; VIRTUAL SHARED MEMORY;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 85077072265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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