Schröder-Preikschat W (1997)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 1997
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Press
Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
City/Town: -
Pages Range: 64-72
Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. of the 30th Annual Hawaii Intern. Conf. on System Sciences
Event location: Hawaii, USA
URI: http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~wosch/Publications/1997/hicss30.ps.gz
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.1997.667181
Programming a distributed-memory parallel machine generally entails a high degree of complexity. Load balancing in particular is a demanding task. If high efficiency is to be maintained, this task cannot be solved by a distributed operating system alone, but must involve the application programmer. Instead of the underlying message-passing architecture being shielded from the programmer, it should be explicitly modeled. Three key concepts of a parallel operating system - dual, mobile and reactive objects - are presented. They provide simple but efficient mechanisms that can be easily utilized for such complex tasks as load balancing, i.e. initial placement and migration of application entities. To illustrate the applicability of these concepts, a simple VR application - geoview - has been implemented on a message-passing architecture, and serves as an example throughout this paper.
APA:
Schröder-Preikschat, W. (1997). Dual, Mobile and Reactive Objects - Operating System Support for Load Balancing Parallel VR Applications. In Proc. of the 30th Annual Hawaii Intern. Conf. on System Sciences (pp. 64-72). Hawaii, USA: -: IEEE Computer Society Press.
MLA:
Schröder-Preikschat, Wolfgang. "Dual, Mobile and Reactive Objects - Operating System Support for Load Balancing Parallel VR Applications." Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1997 30th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Part 1 (of 6), Hawaii, USA -: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997. 64-72.
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