Coarse and fine grain objects in a distributed persistent store

Author

Henskens, Frans A. ; Brössler, Peter ; Keedy, J. Leslie ; Rosenberg, John

Author_Institution

Basser Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

fYear

1993

fDate

9-10 Dec 1993

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

123

Abstract

This paper describes our experiences with the development of a Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) based on a single, very large, paged virtual memory space distributed across an arbitrary number of discrete nodes connected to a network of homogeneous computers. The DSM supports two object granularities: coarse-grain objects called modules and fine-grain objects called segments. We show that support for both modules and segments has advantages in the areas of naming and location, protection, data consistency, transaction management and garbage collection

Keywords

distributed memory systems; memory architecture; shared memory systems; DSM; Distributed Shared Memory; coarse-grain objects; data consistency; distributed persistent store; fine grain objects; garbage collection; location; modules; naming; object granularities; paged virtual memory space; protection; transaction management; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Memory management; Parallel algorithms; Program processors; Programming profession; Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object Orientation in Operating Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Asheville, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5270-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWOOOS.1993.324921

Filename

324921