DSM-PM2: a portable implementation platform for multithreaded DSM consistency protocols

DSM-PM2 is a platform for designing, implementing and experimenting multithreaded DSM consistency protocols. It provides a generic toolbox which facilitates protocol design and allows for easy experimentation with alternative protocols for a given consistency model. DSM-PM2 is portable across a wide range of clusters. We illustrate its power with figures obtained for different protocols implementing sequential consistency, release consistency and Java consistency, on top of Myrinet, Fast-Ethernet and SCI clusters. Citation: This report has been published in the Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS ’01) [4]. Please mention this reference in any citation. Key-words: DSM, multithreading, consistency protocols, DSM-PM2, PM2.

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