Concert - Efficient Runtime Support for Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming Languages on Stock Hardware

Inefficient implementations of global namespaces, message passing, and thread scheduling on stock multicomputers have prevented concurrent object-oriented programming (COOP) languages from gaining widespread acceptance. Recognizing that the architectures of stock multicomputers impose a hierarchy of costs for these operations, we have described a runtime system which provides different versions of each primitive, exposing performance distinctions for optimization. We confirm the advantages of a cost-hierarchy based runtime system organization by showing a variation of two orders of magnitude in version costs for a CM5 implementation. Frequency measurements based on COOP application programs demonstrate that a 39% invocation cost reduction is feasible by simply selecting cheaper versions of runtime operations. 1 Introduction Concurrent object-oriented programming (COOP) languages are an attractive approach for programming massively-parallel computers. Object encapsulation can be used ..

ProperCAD II: A Run-Time Library for Portable, Parallel, Object-Oriented Programming with Applications to VLSI CAD

Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratorySemiconductor Research Corporation / grant 93-DP-10

Dynamic computation migration in distributed shared memory systems

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High-performance all-software distributed shared memory

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172).by Kirk Lauritz Johnson.Ph.D

The Cilk system for parallel multithreaded computing

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199).by Christopher F. Joerg.Ph.D