Title :
Implementing and programming causal distributed shared memory
Author :
Ahamad, Mustaque ; Hutto, Phillip W. ; John, Ranjit
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput., Georgia Tech., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
A simple owner protocol for implementing a causal distributed shared memory (DSM) is presented, and it is argued that this implementation is more efficient than comparable coherent DSM implementations. Moreover, it is shown that writing programs for causal memory is no more difficult than writing programs for atomic shared memory
Keywords :
distributed processing; programming; protocols; storage allocation; coherent DSM implementations; owner protocol; programming causal distributed shared memory; Broadcasting; Delay; Distributed computing; Educational institutions; Intersymbol interference; Protocols; Read-write memory; Registers; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1991., 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2144-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1991.148677
