Title :
Implementing a software virtual shared memory on PVM
Author :
Dou, Yong ; Pang, Zhengbing ; Zhou, Xingiming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Changsha Inst. of Technol., Hunan, China
Abstract :
This paper introduces a software virtual shared memory, GKD-VSM on PVM. It provides a shared memory parallel programming model in FORTRAN language for distributed memory environments. To reduce the software overhead GKD-VSM takes several approaches, including special-purposed user-level multithread scheme and Prefetch&Poststore at synchronization points scheme. The latencies for basic operations are presented
Keywords :
FORTRAN; parallel programming; programming environments; synchronisation; virtual machines; virtual storage; FORTRAN language; GKD-VSM; PVM; Prefetch&Poststore; distributed memory environments; shared memory parallel programming model; software overhead; software virtual shared memory; user-level multithread scheme; Buildings; Data structures; Message passing; Packaging; Parallel programming; Prefetching; Programming profession; Software packages; Software systems; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1997. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7876-3
DOI :
10.1109/APDC.1997.574032
