Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) offers a convenient support for distributed applications. It can be viewed as an alternative to the message passing programming model. DSM has been developed through research projects mostly: Ivy [Li 86], Clouds [Ramachandran 88], Munin [Carter 91], Mirage [Fleisch 89] for example. Meanwhile, efforts towards industrial products have been made : Treadmarks [Kelehe...