Delta Execution: A Preemptive Java Thread Migration Mechanism
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| Title: | Delta Execution: A Preemptive Java Thread Migration Mechanism |
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| Authors: | Matchy J. M. Ma, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C. M. Lau |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.srg.csis.hku.hk/srg/html/papers/cc.ps. |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | Thread migration, load balancing, cluster computing, single-system-image, Java |
| Description: | Delta Execution is a preemptive and transparent thread migration mechanism for supporting load distribution and balancing in a cluster of workstations. The design of Delta Execution allows the execution system to migrate threads of a Java application to different nodes of a cluster so as to achieve parallel execution. The approach is to break down and group the execution context of a migrating thread into sets of consecutive machine-dependent and machine-independent execution sub-contexts. Each set of machine-independent subcontexts, also known as a delta set, is then migrated to a remote node in a regulated manner for continuing the execution. Since Delta Execution is implemented at the virtual machine level, all the migration-related activities are conducted transparently with respect to the applications. No new migration-related instructions need to be added to the programs and existing applications can immediately benefit from the parallel execution capability of Delta E. |
| Document Type: | text |
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| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.451; http://www.srg.csis.hku.hk/srg/html/papers/cc.ps |
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| Accession Number: | edsbas.D79C3DA |
| Database: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Delta Execution is a preemptive and transparent thread migration mechanism for supporting load distribution and balancing in a cluster of workstations. The design of Delta Execution allows the execution system to migrate threads of a Java application to different nodes of a cluster so as to achieve parallel execution. The approach is to break down and group the execution context of a migrating thread into sets of consecutive machine-dependent and machine-independent execution sub-contexts. Each set of machine-independent subcontexts, also known as a delta set, is then migrated to a remote node in a regulated manner for continuing the execution. Since Delta Execution is implemented at the virtual machine level, all the migration-related activities are conducted transparently with respect to the applications. No new migration-related instructions need to be added to the programs and existing applications can immediately benefit from the parallel execution capability of Delta E. |
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