Research on distributed shared memory system supporting runtime node reconfiguration
Xin Wang · Journal of North China Electric Power University · 2003
This paper describes a distributed shared memory (DSM) system which supports runtime node reconfiguration. It allows users to change the node set in the execution of a DSM program. The capability of node addition allows users to further shorten the execution time by dynamically adding newly available nodes to the system. Competition for resources between system users and computer owners can be avoided by dynamically deleting nodes from the system. The system employs the adaptive workload redistribution and the affinity page movement. It supports both sequential consistency and release consistency, and provides aa object-oriented parallel programming environment.