Angel: resource unification in a 64-bit microkernel

Author

Murray, Kevin ; Wilkinson, Tim ; Stiemerling, Tom ; Kelly, Paul

Author_Institution

City Univ., London, UK

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

115

Abstract

The appearance of 64-bit processors allows a new approach to microkernal design. From our experience with a message passing microkernel MESHIX, we discovered that a multi-address space, POSIX architecture is unsuitable for general parallel applications development. Angel was therefore designed to provide a more flexible environment. Central to these aims is a simplification of resources. This is achieved through the use of a single address space holding all data and processes, and which absorbs communication to remove the distinction between local and remote machines. The result is a kernel scalable to massively parallel machines whilst maintaining the shared variable paradigm.<>

Keywords

Unix; message passing; parallel architectures; 64 bit; 64-bit microkernel; Angel; MESHIX; communication; local machines; massively parallel machines; message passing microkernel; parallel applications development; remote machines; resource unification; scalable kernel; shared variable paradigm; single address space;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323274

Filename

323274