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This article presents mEDA-2, an extension to PVM which provides Virtual Shared Memory, VSM, for inter-task communication and synchronization. mEDA-2 consists of functions to access VSM and a daemon to manage parallel program termination. Access to VSM is based on the semantics of the EDA model. The aim of developing mEDA-2 was to facilitate construction of parallel programs in PVM by providing a unified approach to message passing and shared memory models.
This work is partially supported by the Swedish National Board for Industrial Development, NUTEK (contract No. 93-3084).
On leave from the State Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, 197376, Russia. The author is supported by a scholarship from the Wenner-Gren Center.
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Vlassov, V., Ahmed, H., Thorelli, LE. (1995). mEDA-2: An extension of PVM. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60222-4_118
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