A Case Study of Shared Memory and Message Passing: The Triangle Puzzle
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MIT-LCS-TM-524.pdf
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Author(s)
Lew, Kevin
Advisor(s)
Kaashoek, M. Frans
Johnson, Kirk
Date Issued
January 1995
Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TM-524
Abstract
This thesis is the first controlled case study that compares shared-memory and message-passing implementations of an application that solves the triangle puzzle and runs on actual hardware: only the communication interfaces used by the implementations vary; all other system components remained fixed. The implementations run on the MIT Alewife machine, a cache-coherent, distributed-shared-memory multiprocessor that efficiently supports both the shared-memory and message-passing programming models.
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