A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency Export

@incollection{citeulike:3839073, abstract = {Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications. In a programming environment offering weak consistency it is a necessity to worry about individual load and store operations and about proper synchronization. In contrast to this explicit style of distributed programming hared memory systems implementing strong consistency models are easy to program and consistency is implicit. In this paper we compare two representatives: Kerrighed and Plurix implementing sequential and transactional consistency respectively. Kerrighed is a single system image operating system (OS) based on Linux whereas Plurix is a native OS for PC clusters designed for shared memory operation. The measurements presented in this paper show that strong consistency models implemented at the OS level are competitive.}, author = {Frenz, Stefan and Lottiaux, Renaud and Schoettner, Michael and Morin, Christine and Goeckelmann, Ralph and Schulthess, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {3839073}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11564621_3}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/7w3u1fqxey6qp42v}, doi = {10.1007/11564621_3}, journal = {Distributed and Parallel Computing}, keywords = {dsm, kerrighed, os, ssi}, pages = {23--33}, posted-at = {2008-12-31 13:14:31}, priority = {0}, title = {A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11564621_3}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3839073 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3839073 N2 - Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications. In a programming environment offering weak consistency it is a necessity to worry about individual load and store operations and about proper synchronization. In contrast to this explicit style of distributed programming hared memory systems implementing strong consistency models are easy to program and consistency is implicit. In this paper we compare two representatives: Kerrighed and Plurix implementing sequential and transactional consistency respectively. Kerrighed is a single system image operating system (OS) based on Linux whereas Plurix is a native OS for PC clusters designed for shared memory operation. The measurements presented in this paper show that strong consistency models implemented at the OS level are competitive. JF - Distributed and Parallel Computing EP - 33 TI - A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency SP - 23 KW - dsm KW - kerrighed KW - os KW - ssi AU - Frenz, Stefan AU - Lottiaux, Renaud AU - Schoettner, Michael AU - Morin, Christine AU - Goeckelmann, Ralph AU - Schulthess, Peter PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11564621_3 ER -