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- From: pete@medea.rice.edu (Louis Wu)
- Subject: Re: Distributed Shared Memory
- In-Reply-To: mcdowell@exlogcorp.exlog.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:01:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <PETE.93Jan22130421@medea.rice.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:04:21 GMT
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- mcdowell@exlogcorp.exlog.com (Steve McDowell) says:
- > I'm looking for pointers to work that's been done in the
- > area of transparent distributed shared memory for UNIX
- > systems. I am only aware of the "mether" system. Is there
- > anything else?
-
-
- On UNIX, there has been very little. Several people have used Mach's
- external memory manager to implement DSM, but the performance of these
- systems has not been spectacular. Sorry, don't have these references handy.
-
- Currently, Brian Bershad's (bershad@cs.cmu.edu) group at CMU is working on
- a system called Midway that runs uses entry consistency.
-
- @TECHREPORT{bershadzekauskas91,
- AUTHOR = {B.N. Bershad and M.J. Zekauskas},
- TITLE = {Midway: Shared Memory Parallel Programming with Entry
- Consistency for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors},
- INSTITUTION = {Carnegie-Mellon University},
- YEAR = {1991},
- NUMBER = {CMU-CS-91-170},
- MONTH = sep}
-
-
- I am currently building a DSM system at Rice that runs on top of SunOS and
- Ultrix and implements various forms of eager and lazy release consistency.
-
- @CONFERENCE{kelehercox92,
- AUTHOR = {P. Keleher and A. L. Cox and W. Zwaenepoel},
- TITLE = {Lazy Consistency for Software Distributed Shared Memory},
- BOOKTITLE = SIGARCH92,
- YEAR = 1992,
- PAGES = {13-21},
- MONTH = may}
-
-
- @CONFERENCE{dwarkadaskeleher93,
- AUTHOR = {S. Dwarkadas and P. Keleher and A.L. Cox and W. Zwaenepoel},
- TITLE = {An Evaluation of Software Distributed Shared Memory for Next-Generation Processors and Networks},
- BOOKTITLE = SIGARCH93,
- MONTH = jun,
- YEAR = 1993,
- NOTE = {To appear}}
-
- All of these articles talk about memory consistencies that will be used in
- DSM systems rather than the systems themselves, but implementation and
- performance papers on both the above systems will probably be submitted to
- conferences in a few months.
-
-
- Pete Keleher
-
-
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