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This paper presents a new Linda system implementation designed to be able to handle efficiently large tuples. PVM being chosen as the underlying support library it shows the overall organisation of the system this choice and the application constraints led to. The communication protocols are presented with regard to the expected behaviour of the tuple managing servers and some interesting properties, like automatic resynchronisation, are explained. Finally, possible enhancements related to efficiency and Linda extensions are outlined.
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Galibert, O. (1997). YLC, A C++ Linda system on top of PVM. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_75
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