MPVM: A Migration Transparent Version of PVM

نویسندگان

  • Jeremy Casas
  • Dan L. Clark
  • Ravi B. Konuru
  • Steve W. Otto
  • Robert M. Prouty
  • Jonathan Walpole
چکیده

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a widely-used software system that allows a heterogeneous set of parallel and serial UNIX-based computers to be programmed as a single message-passing parallel machine. In this paper, an extension to PVM to support dynamic process migration is presented. Support for migration is important in general-purpose workstation environments since it allows parallel computations to co-exist with other applications, using idle-cycles as they become available and off-loading from workstations when they are no longer free. A description and evaluation of the design and implementation of the prototype Migratable PVM system is presented together with some performance results. @ 1995 The USENIX Association, Computing Systems, Vol. 8 . No. 2 . Spring 1995 l7l

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computing Systems

دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995