Title :
Assertions about past and future: Communication in a high-performance distributed system Highways
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., California Univ., San Diego, LaJolla, CA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4222-X
DOI :
10.1109/SPDP.1993.395527
