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Foil 23 Operating System Issues - II

From Summary of Working Groups at PAWS and PetaSoft Meetings PAWS(Mandalay Beach) and PetSoft(Bodega Bay) -- April 23 and June 17-19,96. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Message Passing
  • Clearly need buffer management, flow control, protocols etc.
  • But what is appropriate mechanisms -- need to revisit comparison of active messages versus MPI etc.
2 Need to be able to restart separate parts of the (large) hardware independently
3 Need to support performance evaluation with different levels of memory hierarchy exposed
4 Need Storage management and garbage collection
  • PIM micromemory different from hierarchical shared memory
5 Need good job and resource management tools
6 Checkpoint/restart only needed at natural synchoronization points

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