The Hyperion system: Compiling multithreaded Java bytecode for distributed execution (2001)
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@MISC{Antoniu01thehyperion,
author = {Gabriel Antoniu and Luc Boug and Philip Hatcher and Mark MacBeth and Keith Mcguigan and Raymond Namyst},
title = {The Hyperion system: Compiling multithreaded Java bytecode for distributed execution},
year = {2001}
}
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Abstract
Our work combines Java compilation to native code with a run-time library that executes Java threads in a distributed-memory environment. This allows a Java programmer to view a cluster of processors as executing a single Java virtual machine. The separate processors are simply resources for executing Java threads with true parallelism, and the run-time system provides the illusion of a shared memory on top of the private memories of the processors. The environment we present is available on top of several UNIX systems and can use a large variety of communication interfaces thanks to the high portability of its run-time system. To evaluate our approach, we compare serial C, serial Java, and multithreaded Java implementations of a branch-and-bound solution to the minimal-cost map-coloring problem. All measurements have been carried out on two platforms using two dierent communication interfaces: SISCI/SCI and MPI-BIP/Myrinet. Key words: Java, compiling, distributed shared memory, Java consistency, multithreading, Hyperion, PM2 1
