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Experiences developing a virtual shared memory system using high-level object paradigms

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Shared-memory programming is still a common and popular way of utilizing parallel machines for high-performance computing. Virtual shared memory (VSM) systems promote a gentle migration path allowing the execution of shared-memory programs on distributed-memory machines. Such kind of systems are both complex and extremely sensitive to performance issues. Therefore many VSM systems still handle distribution aspects manually by means of low-level message-passing operations to gain maximum performance. In contrast, in the Peace operating system family almost all distribution aspects have been covered conveniently and yet efficiently by so-called dual objects. In this paper the VSM subsystem, called Vote, of Peace is presented as a case study for complex systems services that claim for high-level but lightweight object models with an efficient implementation.

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  1. GMD FIRST, Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489, Berlin, Germany

    J. Cordsen, J. Nolte & W. Schröder-Preikschat

  2. University of Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106, Magdeburg, Germany

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Cordsen, J., Nolte, J., Schröder-Preikschat, W. (1998). Experiences developing a virtual shared memory system using high-level object paradigms. In: Jul, E. (eds) ECOOP’98 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054096

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