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
The SPLASH-2 programs: characterization and methodological considerations
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
The utility of exploiting idle workstations for parallel computation
SIGMETRICS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Thread migration and its applications in distributed shared memory systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Adaptive load migration systems for PVM
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Arachne: A Portable Threads System Supporting Migrant Threads on Heterogeneous Network Farms
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
DSM-PM2: A Portable Implementation Platform for Multithreaded DSM Consistency Protocols
HIPS '01 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments
Strings: A High-Performance Distributed Shared Memory for Symmetrical Multiprocessor Clusters
HPDC '98 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Efficient Fine-Grain Thread Migration with Active Threads
IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
Thread Migration in the Presence of Pointers
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Software Technology and Architecture - Volume 1
On Improving Thread Migration: Safety and Performance
HiPC '02 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing
Low Cost Task Migration Initiation in a Heterogeneous MP-SoC
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
Adapting application execution in CMPs using helper threads
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
The thread migration mechanism of DSM-PEPE
ICA3PP'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing
A new technique for data privatization in user-level threads and its use in parallel applications
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A technique for non-invasive application-level checkpointing
The Journal of Supercomputing
Application-Level checkpointing techniques for parallel programs
ICDCIT'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
Fine-grained hardware/software methodology for process migration in MPSoCs
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Preserving the original MPI semantics in a virtualized processor environment
Science of Computer Programming
Using task migration to improve non-contiguous processor allocation in NoC-based CMPs
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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This paper describes a generic mechanism to migrate threads in heterogeneous distributed environments. To maintain high portability and flexibility, thread migration is implemented at language level. At compile-time, a preprocessor scans the C and C++ programs to build thread state, detects possible thread migration points, and transforms the source code accordingly. Run-time support helps migrate threads physically. Since the physical thread state is transformed into a logical form, and pointers and dynamically allocated memory in heap are supported, the proposed solution places no restriction on thread types and migrationenabled systems. We implemented this approach in Strings: a multithreaded software distributed shared memory system. Some microbenchmarks and performance measurements on SPLASH-2 suite are reported.