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One of the most celebrated results of the theory of distributed computing is the impossibility, in an asynchronous system of

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Run-time Support for Distributed Object Sharing in Safe Programming Languages

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We present a new run-time system that supports object sharing in a distributed system. The key insight in this system is that a handle-based implementation of such a system enables effcient and transparent sharing of data with both fine-grained and coarse- ...

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Speculative sequential consistency with little custom storage

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This paper proposes SC++lite, a sequentially consistent system that relaxes memory order speculatively to bridge the performance gap among memory consistency models. Prior proposals to speculatively relax memory order require large custom on-chip storage t ...

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Contention elimination by replication of sequential sections in distributed shared memory programs

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In this paper, we describe Teapot, a domain-specific language for writing cache coherence protocols. Cache coherence is of concern when parallel and distributed systems make local replicas of shared data to improve scalability and performance. In both dist ...

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Distributed Shared-Memory (DSM) computers, which partition physical memory among a collection of workstationlike computing nodes, are now a common way to implement parallel machines. Recently, there has been much interest in DSM machines that use software, ...

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Distributed systems have strong similarities with object systems. However, coordination models for these systems have slightly different requirements. This paper presents a specific coordination model for distributed object systems, built on hierarchical e ...

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We investigate the use of a software distributed shared memory (DSM) layer to support irregular computations on distributed memory machines. Software DSM supports irregular computation through demand fetching of data in response to memory access faults. Wi ...

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Experience with a Language for Writing Coherence Protocols

James Richard Larus

In this paper we describe our experience with Teapot [7], a domain-specific language for writing cache coherence protocols. Cache coherence is of concern when parallel and distributed computing systems make local replicas of shared data to improve scalabil ...

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Sharing is Harder than Agreeing

Rachid Guerraoui

One of the most celebrated results of the theory of distributed computing is the impossibility, in an asynchronous system of

n

processes that communicate through shared memory registers, to solve the set agreement problem where the processes need to deci ...

2008