Second IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'00) Towards Single Image System: Preemptive migration of system threads with the SCI network Chemnitz, Germany November 28-December 01 ISBN: 0-7695-0896-0
Clusters of standard components are becoming a viable alternative to traditional supercomputers. The typical architecture of these clusters is standard PCs connected by a high performance network. The operating system used on this kind of platform is generally Linux because it is stable, and flexible: it can be studied, modified and tuned. A new kind of network has been available recently, not based on message passing but on remote memory mapping. One of the best-known network of this family is SCI. In this paper we present an extension of the LinuxThreads library to provide a migration service for Linux system threads. It takes advantage of the SCI network for a complete transparency of the migration and since it handles standard LinuxThreads, it doesn't need to use a new threads model or library. We explain how we modified the LinuxThreads library to add this functionality and give some preliminary performance results.
Citation:
Pierre Lombard, Yves Denneulin, "Towards Single Image System: Preemptive migration of system threads with the SCI network," cluster, pp.250, Second IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'00), 2000 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||