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Express and CrOS - Loosely Synchronous Message Passing

 

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• 5.1 Multicomputer Operating Systems
• 5.2 A ``Packet'' History of Message-passingSystems
  • 5.2.1 Prehistory
  • 5.2.2 Application-driven Development
  • 5.2.3 Collective Communication
  • 5.2.4 Automated Decomposition-whoami
  • 5.2.5 ``Melting''-a Non-crystalline Problem
  • 5.2.6 The Mark III
  • 5.2.7 Host Programs
  • 5.2.8 A Ray Tracer-and an ``Operating System''
  • 5.2.9 The Crystal Router
  • 5.2.10 Portability
  • 5.2.11 Express
  • 5.2.12 Other Message-passing Systems
  • 5.2.13 What Did We Learn?
  • 5.2.14 Conclusions
• 5.3 Parallel Debugging
  • 5.3.1 Introduction and History
  • 5.3.2 Designing a Parallel Debugger
  • 5.3.3 Conclusions
• 5.4 Parallel Profiling
  • 5.4.1 Missing a Point
  • 5.4.2 Visualization
  • 5.4.3 Goals in Performance Analysis
  • 5.4.4 Overhead Analysis
  • 5.4.5 Event Tracing
  • 5.4.6 Data Distribution Analysis
  • 5.4.7 CPU Usage Analysis
  • 5.4.8 Why So Many Separate Tools?
  • 5.4.9 Conclusions

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Guy Robinson
Wed Mar 1 10:19:35 EST 1995