Efficient Implementation of High-Level Languages on User-Level Communications Architectures
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Author(s) • • • •
Hsieh, Wilson C.
Johnson, Kirk L.
Kaashoek, M. Frans
Wallach, Deborah A.
Weihl, William E.
Date Issued
May 1994
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MIT-LCS-TR-616
Abstract
User-level communication architectures --- parallel architectures that give user code direct but protected access to the network --- provide communication performance that is an order of magnitude higher than previous-generation message-passing architectures. Unfortunately, in order to take advantage of his level of performance, programmers must concern themselves with low-level issues that are often hardware dependent (e.g., what primitives to use for large and small data transfers, and either to use interrupts or polling).
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