TY - JOUR
T1 - The MPE toolkit for supporting distributed applications
AU - Barak, Amnon
AU - Guday, Shai
AU - Laor, Roy
PY - 1992/9
Y1 - 1992/9
N2 - This paper presents a toolkit for supporting the execution of coarse‐grain, parallel (distributed) applications under the MOSIX multicomputer operating system. These tools use standard UNIX System V process control and message‐passing facilities, as well as the dynamic process migration mechanisms of MOSIX. The MPE tools can be used to modify sequential applications that were originally written for execution in a uniprocessor environment, to run efficiently in a distributed environment, consisting of several loosely coupled independent computers that communicate by messages. After presenting the MPE tools, the paper gives examples of several sequential algorithms that have been modified for execution in such a distributed multicomputer, as well as the resulting execution speed‐ups that were obtained.
AB - This paper presents a toolkit for supporting the execution of coarse‐grain, parallel (distributed) applications under the MOSIX multicomputer operating system. These tools use standard UNIX System V process control and message‐passing facilities, as well as the dynamic process migration mechanisms of MOSIX. The MPE tools can be used to modify sequential applications that were originally written for execution in a uniprocessor environment, to run efficiently in a distributed environment, consisting of several loosely coupled independent computers that communicate by messages. After presenting the MPE tools, the paper gives examples of several sequential algorithms that have been modified for execution in such a distributed multicomputer, as well as the resulting execution speed‐ups that were obtained.
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U2 - 10.1002/cpe.4330040604
DO - 10.1002/cpe.4330040604
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AN - SCOPUS:84990721707
SN - 1040-3108
VL - 4
SP - 459
EP - 480
JO - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
JF - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
IS - 6
ER -