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A User-Level Process Package For Concurrent Computing, Ravi Konuru, Steve Otto, Jonathan Walpole, Robert Prouty, Jeremy Casas
A User-Level Process Package For Concurrent Computing, Ravi Konuru, Steve Otto, Jonathan Walpole, Robert Prouty, Jeremy Casas
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A lightweight user-level process(ULP) package for parallel computing is described. Each ULP has its own register context, stack, data and heap space and communication with other ULPs is performed using locally synchronous, location transparent, message passing primitives. The aim of the package is to provide support for lightweight over-decomposition, optimized local communication and transparent dynamic migration. The package supports a subset of the Parallel Virtual Machine(PVM) interface[Sun90).