Title :
A performance study of an object-oriented, parallel operating system
Author :
Kohr, David R., Jr. ; Zhang, Xingbin ; Reed, Daniel A. ; Rahman, Mustafizur
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
The nascent and rapidly evolving state of parallel systems often leaves parallel application developers at the mercy of inefficient, inflexible operating system software. To assess the feasibility of performance tuning via malleable system software and to understand the performance penalties for detailed operating system performance data capture, we describe a set of performance experiments with Choices, an experimental, object-oriented operating system designed for use with parallel systems.<>
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; operating systems (computers); parallel processing; parallel programming; performance evaluation; Choices; inflexible operating system software; malleable system software; object-oriented operating system; object-oriented parallel operating system; operating system performance data capture; parallel application developers; parallel systems; performance penalties; performance study; performance tuning;
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
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1994.323277
