High performance distributed objects for cluster computing

Author

Brunie, Lionel ; Lefevre, Laurent ; Reymann, Olivier

Author_Institution

LISI, INSA de Lyon, France

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

236

Abstract

With the development of cluster computing, distributed shared memory (DSM) systems have a new role to play by providing ease of programming a shared space combined with the performance of a high speed network. In this paper, we show that, by combining a high performance network with low latency communication protocols and multithreading, DSM systems on top of clusters can be an efficient alternative programming model to message passing. We present the DOSMOS system and experiments made on a Myrinet network based cluster. The raw performance of DOSMOS and results obtained with several kinds of applications are also described

Keywords

distributed programming; distributed shared memory systems; multi-threading; protocols; workstation clusters; Myrinet network based cluster; cluster computing; distributed shared memory systems; high performance distributed objects; high performance network; low latency communication protocols; multithreading; programming; programming model; shared space; Coherence; Costs; Delay; Distributed computing; Electrical capacitance tomography; High performance computing; Memory architecture; Message passing; Parallel programming; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing, 1999. Proceedings. 1st IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0343-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCC.1999.810829

Filename

810829