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Isatis: A customizable distributed object-based runtime system

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Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation (OBPDC 1995)

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This paper discusses the design and implementation of a customizable distributed object-based runtime system. Our main goal in the system's design was to provide a distributed object-based system supporting execution of various (concurrent) object-oriented languages, and that can be easily enriched with mechanisms for object management so as to fit the applications' needs. Enrichment of the runtime system with a particular mechanism is illustrated through the integration of a facility that is aimed at enhancing the applications' performance. This goal is achieved by means of a load balancing strategy that implements initial-placement of method executions and migration of data objects according to both the processors' load and the objects' features.

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    Michel Banâtre, Yasmina Belhamissi, Valérie Issarny, Isabelle Puaut & Jean-Paul Routeau

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Banâtre, M., Belhamissi, Y., Issarny, V., Puaut, I., Routeau, JP. (1996). Isatis: A customizable distributed object-based runtime system. In: Briot, JP., Geib, JM., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation. OBPDC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61487-7_30

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