The Nexus approach to integrating multithreading and communication
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multithreading for multiprocessors
Efficient wire formats for high performance computing
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Fast Heterogeneous Binary Data Interchange
HCW '00 Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
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Abstract: Definition and translation of metadata is incorporated in all systems that exchange structured data. We observe that the manipulation of this metadata can be decomposed into three separate steps: discovery, binding of program objects to the metadata, and marshaling of data to and from wire formats. We have designed a method of representing message formats in XML, using datatypes available in the XML Schema specification. We have implemented a tool, xml2wire, that uses such metadata and exploits this decomposition in order to provide flexible metadata definition facilities for an efficient binary communications mechanism. We also observe that the use of xml2wire makes possible such flexibility without intolerable performance effects.