Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:30:03 GMT Server: Apache/1.1.1 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 4889 Last-modified: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:33:30 GMT Mirage Development Team

Mirage Development Team

Mirage+ is a Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) system which provides memory management and communication across machines in a loosely coupled network environment. The system hides network boundaries to processes accessing shared memory, providing the illusion of a coarse grained multiprocessor to the programmer and algorithm designer. Mirage+ is designed to execute traditional System V Posix-compliant shared memory programs on commodity personal computers.

A key feature in Mirage+ is the simplicity with which powerful networking can be employed using solutions that have been designed for uniprocessors and applied to a more powerful network of workstations platform. Mirage+ implements DSM using a paged segmentation scheme where segments are partitioned into pages. The system runs on a cluster of IBM PS/2 class machines.

Our lastest work in the DSM area is a non-kernel invasive DSM system based on the Quarks prototype from Utah. We are focusing on disconnected operation and mobility for Distributed Memory Shared Systems. The new research is based on advances and experiences with Mirage+. We have also constructed the Riverside Mobile DSM Suite which are a set of application programs that exercise functionality in mobile systems that one would expect to want to implement using DSM. In addition, our group also authored the DSM port of Quarks to the DEC Alpha AXP 150 personal computers and made the results of the port accessible to other researchers.


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