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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


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.
Need to be able to restart separate parts of the (large) hardware independently
Need to support performance evaluation with different levels of memory hierarchy exposed
Need Storage management and garbage collection
  • PIM micromemory different from hierarchical shared memory
Need good job and resource management tools
Checkpoint/restart only needed at natural synchoronization points



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