Assertions about past and future: Communication in a high-performance distributed system Highways

Author

Ahuja, Mohan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., California Univ., San Diego, LaJolla, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1-4 Dec 1993

Firstpage

241

Lastpage

244

Abstract

Highways is a distributed-programming system, we are building, with high-performance as a major goal. The suite of send primitives implemented in Highways, called Global-Flush Primitives, have three no-table aspects. (1) Global-Flush Primitives permit one to make an assertion about messages sent in the past of sending m, in the future of sending m, about both or neither. (2) The past and the future of an event is defined using the relation "happened before." (3) A message can be sent to any subgroup of processes specified as a parameter

Keywords

distributed processing; message passing; multimedia communication; parallel programming; programming environments; Global-Flush Primitives; Highways; distributed-programming system; high-performance distributed system Highways; no-table aspects; send primitives; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Drives; Fault tolerant systems; High performance computing; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Performance gain; Road transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4222-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPDP.1993.395527

Filename

395527