Title :
Communications in the Mercury system
Author :
Liskov, Barbara ; Bloom, Toby ; Gifford, David ; Scheifler, Robert ; Weihl, William
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A high-level communication mechanism that combined blocking and nonblocking calls in a clean and uniform way is proposed. The mechanism allows a server to provide a uniform interface based on remote calls; a client can optimize its use of the server of low latency or high throughput. When it is optimized for low latency, the mechanism is competitive with other remote-procedure-call mechanisms. When it is optimized for high throughput, it is competitive with bulk-data-transport mechanisms such as byte streams.<>
Keywords :
distributed processing; Mercury system; blocking; bulk-data-transport; byte streams; client; communication; latency; nonblocking calls; remote-procedure-call; server; throughput; uniform interface; Concurrent computing; Delay; Displays; File systems; High performance computing; Kernel; Message passing; Performance loss; Propagation losses; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1988. Vol.II. Software Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0842-0
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1988.11804
