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The next generation of supercomputers will be largely parallel MIMD architectures consisting of several hundreds to thousands of processing nodes. These architectures will be realized as multicomputer systems with distributed control and are based on distributed memory, rather than shared memory. Consequently, distributed operating systems for global control of system resources are required and communication is to be based on message-passing. Major aspects of these operating systems will be a very high degree of distribution (i.e., actual modularization) as well as an extremely fast implementation of message-passing services. The paper deals with the organization of a distributed operating system, Peace, which has been designed for a largely parallel mimd supercomputer, Suprenum. It discusses the implementation of the message-passing kernel.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) of the German Federal Government under grant no. ITR 8502 A 2.
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Schröder-Preikschat, W. (1990). Peace — A distributed operating system for high-performance multicomputer systems. In: Schröder-Preikschat, W., Zimmer, W. (eds) Progress in Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Systems Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52609-9_75
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