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An implementation of distributed shared memory
Author(s) -
Ramachandran Umakishore,
Khalidi M. Yousef A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380210503
Subject(s) - computer science , shared memory , distributed shared memory , data diffusion machine , distributed memory , structuring , distributed computing , distributed object , virtual memory , unix , uniform memory access , context (archaeology) , memory model , memory map , set (abstract data type) , object (grammar) , memory management , operating system , programming language , common object request broker architecture , overlay , artificial intelligence , paleontology , finance , software , biology , economics
Shared memory is a simple yet powerful paradigm for structuring systems. Recently, there has been an interest in extending this paradigm to non‐shared memory architectures as well. For example, the virtual address spaces for all objects in a distributed object‐based system could be viewed as constituting a global distributed shared memory . We propose a set of primitives for managing distributed shared memory. We present an implementation of these primitives in the context of an object‐based operating system as well as on top of Unix.