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1994
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The Design and Evaluation of a Shared Object System for Distributed Memory Machines
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SAM, a shared object system for distributed memory machines. SAM is a portable run-time system that provides a global name space ...
Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam
OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Distributed Filaments: Efficient Fine-Grain Parallelism on a Cluster of Workstations
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Gregory R. A...
OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Experiences with Locking in a NUMA Multiprocessor Operating System Kernel
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
Ronald C. Unrau, Orran Krieger, Benjamin Gamsa, Mi...
OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
Carl A. Waldspurger, William E. Weihl
OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
HiPEC: High Performance External Virtual Memory Caching
Traditional operating systems use a xed LRU-like page replacement policy and centralized frame pool that cannot properly serve all types of memory access patterns of various appli...
Chao-Hsien Lee, Meng Chang Chen, Ruei-Chuan Chang