Moving Distributed Shared Memory to the Personal Computer: The MIRAGE+ Experience (1993)
| Venue: | Department of Computer Science, University of California |
| Citations: | 3 - 2 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Fleisch93movingdistributed,
author = {Brett D. Fleisch and Randall L. Hyde and Niels Christian Juul},
title = {Moving Distributed Shared Memory to the Personal Computer: The MIRAGE+ Experience},
institution = {Department of Computer Science, University of California},
year = {1993}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes the evolution of a distributed shared memory (DSM) system, Mirage, from its original implementation on VAX computers to its current implementation on modern high-end personal computers. Mirage provides a form of shared memory that is network transparent in a loosely coupled environment. The system hides network boundaries for processes that are accessing shared memory and is upward compatible with the System V UNIX 1 interface. This paper addresses the architectural dependencies in the design of the system and evaluates performance of the implementation. Mirage + performance is similar to Mirage, but the communication bottleneck has become more severe because of the larger page size used in the implementation. We show how this problem can be resolved on conventional hardware at little additional expense by using compression techniques. 1 UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T. Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Reasons for Porting to a New Platform : : : : : : ...
