Recoverable distributed shared memory /

a shared, coherent memory address space, provided by the

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kanthadai, Sundarrajan S.
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
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Description
Summary:a shared, coherent memory address space, provided by the
additional information about the occurrence of reads. Unlike
been proposed for implementing a reliable DSM, require the
behaves like a failure-free system. Many algorithms that have
communication, implemented on top of message passing systems.
Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) is a model for interprocess
executing on such a system increases, the likelihood of
execution. We propose a new recoverable DSM algorithm to
In this model, processes running on separate hosts can access
interval can be tailored to balance the cost of checkpointing
keeps track of the dependencies by logging writes and some
message and the logging overheads.
of message passing, it has become a convenient model to work
often. The technique uses independent checkpointing and
operations. Thus, by avoiding the programming complexities
previous recovery techniques, this one reduces both the
processes to take checkpoints whenever there is a data
processor failure due to machine malfunction, power failure,
processors in the system and the running time of applications
systems can possibly be achieved only if the whole system
tolerate multiple node failures and where the checkpointing
transfer, thus resulting in high overhead during failure-free
underlying DSM system, through the normal read and write
uniprocessors to distributed environments, As the number of
user error, etc., increases. The benefits given by these
versus the savings in recovery obtained by taking checkpoints
with. It is a natural extension of parallel programming on
Item Description:"Major subject: Computer Science".
Vita.
Physical Description:viii, 38 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 35-37.