Dynamic computation migration in distributed shared memory systems
Wilson C. Hsieh · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1996
Computation migration is a new mechanism for accessing remote data in a parallel system. It is the partial migration of an active thread to data that it accesses, in contrast to data migration, which moves data to the computation that accesses it (often by making a copy). Computation migration improves performance relative to data migration, because data is not moved; as a result, it avoids sending protocol messages to keep replicated data consistent. Performance