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A Feature Taxonomy and Survey of Synchronization Primitive Implementations
Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratoryNCR Corporatio
Run-time support for parallel object-oriented computing: the NIP lazy task creation technique and the NIP object-based software distributed shared memory
PhD ThesisAdvances in hardware technologies combined with decreased costs
have started a trend towards massively parallel architectures that utilise
commodity components. It is thought unreasonable to expect software
developers to manage the high degree of parallelism that is made
available by these architectures. This thesis argues that a new
programming model is essential for the development of parallel
applications and presents a model which embraces the notions of
object-orientation and implicit identification of parallelism. The new
model allows software engineers to concentrate on development issues,
using the object-oriented paradigm, whilst being freed from the burden
of explicitly managing parallel activity.
To support the programming model, the semantics of an execution
model are defined and implemented as part of a run-time support
system for object-oriented parallel applications. Details of the novel
techniques from the run-time system, in the areas of lazy task creation
and object-based, distributed shared memory, are presented.
The tasklet construct for representing potentially parallel
computation is introduced and further developed by this thesis. Three
caching techniques that take advantage of memory access patterns
exhibited in object-oriented applications are explored. Finally, the
performance characteristics of the introduced run-time techniques are
analysed through a number of benchmark applications