Programming with distributed shared memory

Author

Ramachandran, Umakishore ; Khalidi, M. Yousef Amin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Georgia Inst. Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

20-22 Sep 1989

Firstpage

176

Lastpage

183

Abstract

In a distributed system, remote services may be provided either by a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism or by paging in the required memory segments and performing the services locally. The latter approach, termed distributed shared memory (DSM) has several benefits given the current trend of structuring computing systems using diskless computational servers (workstations) and data servers (file servers). A set of distributed shared memory mechanisms that handle networkwide memory management for an object-based system is proposed. The implementation of these mechanisms is discussed and examples of their use in implementing the programming language Linda, process migration, two-phase commit and a distributed game are provided

Keywords

computer networks; file servers; object-oriented programming; programming; storage management; DSM; computing systems; data servers; diskless computational servers; distributed game; distributed shared memory; file servers; networkwide memory management; object-based system; paging; process migration; programming language Linda; remote procedure call; remote services; required memory segments; two-phase commit; workstations; Clouds; Distributed computing; File servers; Hardware; Kernel; Memory management; Network servers; Operating systems; Random access memory; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1989. COMPSAC 89., Proceedings of the 13th Annual International

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1964-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1989.65079

Filename

65079