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- From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
- Subject: Re: shared virtual memory
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:56:59 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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- References: <1ivhchINN1in@coltrane.crhc.uiuc.edu>
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- Keywords: distributed shared virtual memory
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- In article <1ivhchINN1in@coltrane.crhc.uiuc.edu>, blj@crhc.uiuc.edu (Bob Janssens) writes:
- > I am initiating research in the area of shared virtual memory. I did not
- > know Stratus has shared virtual memory. I'd appreciate any more information
- > about it. Is it a completely OS software based way of sharing memory
- > between processors? What is it generally used for? Is it general/fast
- > enough to support shared-memory based parallel programming?
- >
- > I would appreciate any information or pointers to publically available
- > papers or documentation.
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- It's basically the same as the Unix mmap system call. And a number of
- applications use it as a high-speed IPC mechanism.
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- Dan S.
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