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Vote for Peace: Implementation and Performance of a Parallel Operating System

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Marco Dimas Gubitoso,

Ute Haack,

Wolfgang Schröder-PreikschatAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 2

Pages 16 - 27

Published: 01 April 1997 Publication History

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The performance capabilities of virtual shared-memory systems still lead to the impression that the use of VSM is purely academic, providing conceptual simplicity at the expense of performance. The heaviness of the VSM implementation itself, especially the underlying consistency model, often leads to this conclusion. The other acceptance-limiting factor is due to the operating system, particularly if the functional enrichment introduced by the VSM subsystem is not an integral part of the overall design. The authors describe the design and implementation of the Peace parallel operating-system family-in particular, the message-passing kernel-and its VSM subsystem, Vote. They discuss the performance figures of Vote and the kernel, showing that high performance with software-based VSM implementations is no longer wishful thinking.

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IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology Volume 5, Issue 2

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Beuche DFröhlich AMeyer RPapajewski HSchön FSchröder-Preikschat WSpinczyk OSpinczyk UShapiro M(2000)On architecture transparency in operating systemsProceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system10.1145/566726.566758(147-152)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/566726.566758
Nolte JSchröder-Preikschat WGuedes PBacon J(1998)Dual objects—an object model for distributed system programmingProceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS European workshop on Support for composing distributed applications10.1145/319195.319235(261-267)Online publication date: 7-Sep-1998
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319195.319235

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