Fine-grained mobility in the Emerald system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The Amber system: parallel programming on a network of multiprocessors
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Per-Node Multithreading and Remote Latency
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Thread migration and its applications in distributed shared memory systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Arachne: A Portable Threads System Supporting Migrant Threads on Heterogeneous Network Farms
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
On Improving Thread Migration: Safety and Performance
HiPC '02 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing
Compile/Run-Time Support for Thread Migration
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
An Evaluation of Thread Migration for Exploiting Distributed Array Locality
HPCS '02 Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications
MigThread: Thread Migration in DSM Systems
ICPPW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
On the design and implementation of a portable DSM system for low-cost multicomputers
ICCSA'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Computational science and its applications: PartI
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In this paper we present the thread migration mechanism of DSM-PEPE, a multithreaded distributed shared memory system. DSM systems like DSM-PEPE provide a parallel environment to harness the available computing power of computer networks. DSM systems offer a virtual shared memory space on top of a distributed-memory multicomputer, featuring the scalability and low cost of a multicomputer, and the ease of programming of a shared-memory multiprocessor. DSM systems rely on data migration to make data available to running threads. The thread migration mechanism of DSM-PEPE was designed as an alternative to this data migration paradigm. Threads are allowed to migrate from one node to another, as needed by the computation. We show by experimentation the feasibility of the thread migration mechanism of DSM-PEPE as an alternative to improve application perfomance by enhancing spatial locality.