The CLAM approach to multithreaded communication on shared-memory multiprocessors: design and experiments

Author

Gomez, Juan Carlos ; Mascarenhas, Edward ; Rego, Vernon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

9

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

49

Abstract

We present results on the experimental design and development of a Connectionless, Lightweight, and Multiway (CLAM) communications environment. The system provides efficient and scalable multiprotocol support for distributed applications that use multimodal data. We present motivation behind design decisions for the CLAM system, and describe two simple, but effective scheduling algorithms for the simultaneous support of multiple, threads-based user-space protocols. One algorithm is readily portable to shared-memory multiprocessors, and enables two or more protocols to coexist within an OS-level process. We present experimental results on the performance of both algorithms

Keywords

message passing; performance evaluation; protocols; shared memory systems; CLAM approach; OS-level process; communications environment; multithreaded communication; performance evaluation; scalable multiprotocol support; scheduling algorithms; shared-memory multiprocessors; user-space protocols; Algorithm design and analysis; Delay; Design for experiments; Distributed computing; Libraries; Processor scheduling; Proposals; Protocols; Scheduling algorithm; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/71.655241

Filename

655241