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The duality of memory and communication in the implementation of a multiprocessor operating system
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A survey of process migration mechanisms
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Multilanguage Parallel Programming of Heterogeneous Machines
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An evaluation of directory schemes for cache coherence
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The architecture and implementation of MEMNET: a high--speed shared-memory computer communication network
Munin: distributed shared memory based on type-specific memory coherence
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Preemptable remote execution facilities for the V-system
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Implementing remote procedure calls
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Synchronization with eventcounts and sequencers
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The Multics virtual memory: concepts and design
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Virtual memory, processes, and sharing in MULTICS
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SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Decentralized object finding using forwarding addresses (object, network, distribution)
Decentralized object finding using forwarding addresses (object, network, distribution)
Shared virtual memory on loosely coupled multiprocessors
Shared virtual memory on loosely coupled multiprocessors
A comprehensive bibliography of distributed shared memory
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Vote for Peace: Implementation and Performance of a Parallel Operating System
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Towards multi-level adaptation for distributed operating systems and applications
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Towards elastic operating systems
HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
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Two possible modes of Input/Output (I/O)are "sequential" and "random-access", and there is an extremely strong conceptual link between I/O and communication. Sequential communication, typified in the I/O setting by magnetic tape, is typified in the communication setting by a stream, e.g., a UNIX1 pipe. Random-access communication, typified in the I/O setting by a drum or disk device, is typified in the communication setting by shared memory. In this paper, we study and survey the extension of the random-access model to distributed computer systems.A Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) is a memory area shared by processes running on computers connected by a network. DSM provides direct system support of the shared memory programming model. When assisted by hardware, it can also provide a low-overhead interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism to software. Shared pages are migrated on demand between the hosts. Since computer network latency is typically much larger than that of a shared bus, caching in DSM is necessary for performance. We use caching and issues such as address space structure and page replacement schemes to define a taxonomy. Based on the taxonomy we examine three DSM efforts in detail, namely: IVY, Clouds and MemNet.