The Amber System: Parallel Programming on a Network of Multiprocessors (1989)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles |
| Citations: | 231 - 15 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Chase89theamber,
author = {Jeffrey Chase and Franz G. Amador and Edward D. Lazowska and Henry M. Levy and Richard J. Littlefield},
title = {The Amber System: Parallel Programming on a Network of Multiprocessors},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
year = {1989},
pages = {147--158}
}
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Abstract
Microprocessor-based shared-memory multiprocessors are becoming widely available and promise to provide cost-effective high-performance computing. This paper describes a programming system called Amber which permits a single application program to use a homogeneous network of multiprocessors in a uniform way, making the network appear to the application as an integrated, non-uniform memory access, shared-memory multiprocessor. This simplifies the development of applications and allows compute-intensive parallel programs to effectively harness the potential of multiple nodes. Amber programs are written using an object-oriented subset of the C++ programming language, supplemented with primitives for managing concurrency and distribution. Amber provides a network-wide shared-object virtual memory in which coherence is provided by hardware means for locally-executing threads, and by software means for remote accesses. Amber runs on top of the Topaz operating system on a network of DEC SRC ...
Keyphrases
amber system single application program software mean uniform way remote access object-oriented subset microprocessor-based shared-memory multiprocessor hardware mean network-wide shared-object virtual memory programming system multiple node dec src compute-intensive parallel program locally-executing thread homogeneous network cost-effective high-performance computing amber program shared-memory multiprocessor non-uniform memory access programming language
