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Multicast-based runtime system for highly efficient causally consistent software-only DSM

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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This paper introduces the application of IP multicasting for enhancing of software-only DSM systems and, at the same time, simplification of the programming model by offering a simple memory consistency model. The described algorithm is the foundation of a runtime system implemented as filesystems for the Windows NT and FreeBSD operating systems.

This research was supported in parts from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava under Grant VEGA 1/4289/97

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    Thomas Seidmann

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Seidmann, T. (1999). Multicast-based runtime system for highly efficient causally consistent software-only DSM. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097938

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