| | Distributed Shared Memory Home Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Despite the long and extensive history of work in the DSM area and the well accepted fact that the shared memory paradigm provides the user with an easy-to-use environment, DSM systems for cluster architectures are still mainly research based. |
| | The reasons for this can be seen in two major obstacles: first, the inherent performance problems of software DSM systems prohibiting the users from gaining optimal performance for their applications; second, the abundance of available programming models and the absence of one single clear standardization approach for cluster environments with their special challenges. |
| | The DSM system implements memory management and communication for loosely coupled machines hiding network boundaries to processes accessing shared memory, providing the illusion of a coarse grained multiprocessor to the programmer and algorithm designer. |
| www.cs.utexas.edu /users/kistler/dsm/dsm_links.htm (5710 words) |
