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
Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Using fine-grain threads and run-time decision making in parallel computing
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multithreading for multiprocessors
Cilk: an efficient multithreaded runtime system
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multithreading for multiprocessors
The Nexus approach to integrating multithreading and communication
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multithreading for multiprocessors
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
Predicting the cost and benefit of adapting data parallel applications in clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Compile/Run-Time Support for Thread Migration
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Using Preemptive Thread Migration to Load-Balance Data-Parallel Applications
Euro-Par '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Efficient user-level thread migration and checkpointing on windows NT clusters
WINSYM'99 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Windows NT Symposium - Volume 3
A moving threads processor architecture MTPA
The Journal of Supercomputing
Deadlock-free fine-grained thread migration
NOCS '11 Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
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Thread migration is established as a mechanism for achieving dynamic load sharing. However fine-grained migration has not been used due to the high thread and messaging overheads. This paper describes a fine-grained thread migration system whose extensible event mechanism permits an efficient interface between threads and communications without compromising the modularity and performance of either. Migration is supported by user level primitives based on which applications may implement different migration policies. The system is portable and can be used directly or serve as a compilation target for parallel languages. The system runs on a cluster of SMPs and observed performance is orders of magnitude better than other reported measurements.