Object consistency-a new model for distributed memory systems

Author

Kazimierczak, Czeslaw K. ; Andersen, Birger

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Copenhagen Univ., Denmark

fYear

1995

fDate

14-15 Aug 1995

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

This paper presents main ideas of object consistency (OC)-a new consistency model for distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. It was developed by analyzing various sharing patterns in real parallel applications as well as existing coherency models for both flat and object-based DSMs. OC is an attempt to effectively integrate entry consistency (EC) and version consistency (VC) into a single consistency model which poses language-level objects as the grain of sharing and coherency. The main features of OC include: support for both the EC and VC styles of sharing, multiple-writer protocol for objects, and explicit control over function and data shipping

Keywords

configuration management; data integrity; distributed memory systems; object-oriented programming; shared memory systems; data shipping; distributed memory systems; distributed shared memory systems; entry consistency; multiple-writer protocol; object consistency; version consistency; Computer science; Delay; Electronic mail; Programming profession; Protocols; Tires; Virtual colonoscopy; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object-Orientation in Operating Systems, 1995., Fourth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Lund

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7115-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWOOS.1995.470582

Filename

470582