Re: MIG->Corba (performance)

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 04:15:16PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 03:12:46PM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> > > One beautiful solution will be batching many IPC requests in one context
> > > switch, e.g. (open,read,close).
> >
> > You mean a burst transfer. That's done in parallel programming. Many high
> > level libraries take advantage of that. It is ultimately the task of
> > message passing subsystem though. Think an optimizing msg handler. Of
> > course you need some abstractions so that you can tell the msg handler
> > what kind of messages you are sending.
> 
> urls?

:) Well, search for the sprite project at stanford. Read some of their
papers, they have implemented some burst transfer protocol for their
distributed file system implementation.

another example is in petsc. have a look at the petsc papers. that's a
debian package which is easy to find.

now i'm looking at tanenbaum if he mentions it. Hmm have a look at tanenbaum
page 434 communication in distributed systems, remote procedure call
and read "blast protocol" in acknowledgements. search that phrase
in researchindex.com and you'll find a lot of great papers about it I'm
sure!! that's 10.3.5 in 1992 edition of Modern Operating Systems, Tanenbaum.

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Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
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