We study Reader-Writer Exclusion [1], a well-known variant of the Mutual Exclusion problem [2] where processes are divided into two classes–readers and writers–and multiple re...
A number of library-based parallel and sequential network simulators have been designed. This paper describes a library, called GloMoSim (for Global Mobile system Simulator), for ...
The memory size limits the scalability of virtual machine systems. There have been some researches about sharing identical pages among guest systems to reduce memory usage. However...
Myeongjae Jeon, Euiseong Seo, Junghyun Kim, Joonwo...
High performance computers currently under construction, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L, consisting of large numbers (64K) of low cost processing elements with relatively small local...
Ed Upchurch, Paul L. Springer, Maciej Brodowicz, S...
We comparethe performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors,...
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, ...