Global memory management for workstation networks
Michael J. Feeley, Henry M. Levy · 1996
Advances in network and processor technology have greatly changed the communication and computational power of local-area workstation networks. However, operating systems still treat workstation networks as a collection of loosely-connected processors, where each workstation acts as an autonomous and independent agent. This operating system structure makes it difficult to exploit the characteristics of current networks, such as low-latency communication, huge primary memories, and high-speed processors, in order to improve the performance of network applications. This dissertation describes the design and implementation of global memory management in a workstation network. Our objective is to use a single, unified, but distributed memory management algorithm at the lowest level of the operating syste...