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\title{Bridging the Gap between Distributed
  Shared Memory and Message Passing} \author{Holger Karl\footnote{This
    work was done while the author was on leave from
    Humboldt-Universit{{\"a}}t Berlin, Graduiertenkolleg
    ``Kommunikationsbasierte Systeme.''  }  \\
  \texttt{karl@cs.nyu.edu}\\
  Department of Computer Science\\
  Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences\\
  New York  University } 

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\section*{Acknowledgements}
Acknowledgements are due to Arash Baratloo for valuable discussions and
to the anonymous referees for pointing out related work (in
particular, Jade) and helpful comments.


    This research was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research
    Projects Agency and Rome Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command,
    USAF, under agreement number F30602-96-1-0320; by the National
    Science Foundation under grant number CCR-94-11590; by the Intel
    Corporation; and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German
    Research Council).

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    The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the author
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    the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Rome Laboratory, or
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