• DocumentCode
    2720732
  • Title

    Simulating shared memory in message passing model

  • Author

    Aguilar, Oscar R. ; Datta, Ajoy Kumar ; Ghosh, Sukumar

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    27-30 Mar 1991
  • Firstpage
    232
  • Lastpage
    238
  • Abstract
    The authors present an algorithm to simulate shared memory primitives in a message passing system with synchronous processors and synchronous communication. This implies that it is possible to construct emulators that translate algorithms for the shared memory model to that of the message passing model. Also, the results imply that the existence of the solution for a problem in one model guarantees the existence of a solution in the other model. However, in most cases it is not possible to maintain the same degree of resilience since the shared memory model is more powerful than the message passing model in this respect. The authors describe the message passing model and discuss how its parameters affect the design of the algorithms. The algorithm uses bounded local storage and message size
  • Keywords
    digital simulation; network operating systems; bounded local storage; emulators; message passing model; message size; shared memory simulation; synchronous communication; synchronous processors; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Message passing; Multiprocessing systems; Power system modeling; Read-write memory; Registers; Resilience;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computers and Communications, 1991. Conference Proceedings., Tenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Scottsdale, AZ
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2133-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PCCC.1991.113816
  • Filename
    113816