Communications of the ACM
Adaptive bitonic sorting: an optimal parallel algorithm for shared-memory machines
SIAM Journal on Computing
Process-originated migration in a heterogeneous environment
CSC '89 Proceedings of the 17th conference on ACM Annual Computer Science Conference
Native code process-originated migration in a heterogeneous environment
CSC '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation
The art of distributed applications: programming techniques for remote procedure calls
The art of distributed applications: programming techniques for remote procedure calls
A unified model of pointwise equivalence of procedural computations
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Supporting dynamic data structures on distributed-memory machines
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
The Legion vision of a worldwide virtual computer
Communications of the ACM
Limitations of cycle stealing for parallel processing on a network of homogeneous workstations
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Exploiting process lifetime distributions for dynamic load balancing
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
Aglets: Programming Mobile Agents in Java
WWCA '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications
EFFICIENT PROCESS MIGRATION FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING ON NON-DEDICATED NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS
EFFICIENT PROCESS MIGRATION FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING ON NON-DEDICATED NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS
(R) MpPVM: A Software System for Non-Dedicated Heterogeneous Computing
ICPP '96 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Parallel Processing - Volume 3
Process Introspection: A Checkpoint Mechanism for High Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Process Introspection: A Checkpoint Mechanism for High Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Heterogeneous Process Migration: The Tui System
Heterogeneous Process Migration: The Tui System
Communication State Transfer for the Mobility of Concurrent Heterogeneous Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A Compiler Analysis of Interprocedural Data Communication
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Mobile MPI programs in computational grids
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
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This study presents a practical solution for data collection and restoration to migrate a process written in high-level stack-based languages such as C and Fortran over a network of heterogeneous computers. We first introduce a logical data model, namely the Memory Space Representation (MSR) model, to recognize complex data structures in process address space. Then, novel methods are developed to incorporate the MSR model into a process, and to collect and restore data efficiently. We have implemented prototype software and performed experiments on different programs. Experimental and analytical results show that: (1) a user-level process can be migrated across different computing platforms; (2) semantic information of data structures in the process's memory space can be correctly collected and restored; (3) costs of data collection and restoration depend on the complexity of the MSR graph in the memory space and the amount of data involved; and (4) the implantation of the MSR model into the process is not a decisive factor of incurring execution overheads. With appropriate program analysis, we can practically achieve low overhead.