A Case Study of Shared Memory and Message Passing: The Triangle Puzzle
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Lew, Kevin![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149240/MIT-LCS-TM-524.pdf.jpg?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
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Advisor
Kaashoek, M. Frans
Johnson, Kirk
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This thesis is the first controlled case study that compares shared-memory and message-passing implementations of an application that solves the triangle puzzle and runs on actual hardware: only the communication interfaces used by the implementations vary; all other system components remained fixed. The implementations run on the MIT Alewife machine, a cache-coherent, distributed-shared-memory multiprocessor that efficiently supports both the shared-memory and message-passing programming models.
Date issued
1995-01Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TM-524