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Virtual Shared Files: Towards User-Friendly Inter-Process Communications

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Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT 1999)

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This paper presents conception of virtual shared files (VSF) as paradigm of parallel components interaction. Metaphor of virtual shared files space ensures a compromise between flexibility of explicit message passing and transparency of shared memory model. VSF are based on ordinary I/O notion and look like matrixes and ordinary files for application programmers. The most essential design issues are: all operations are applied to a file as a whole; operations remotely changing the content of file are prohibited; memory is explicitly allocated by user what is essential for massively-parallel computers.

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  1. Inst. Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS, ul. S.Kovalevskoi 16, 620219, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Alexandr Konovalov, Victor Samofalov & Sergei Scharf

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  1. Computing Center, 6 Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

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Konovalov, A., Samofalov, V., Scharf, S. (1999). Virtual Shared Files: Towards User-Friendly Inter-Process Communications. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48387-X_24

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