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The architecture of the DecentVM: towards a decentralized virtual machine for many-core computing

Authors:

Annette Bieniusa,

Johannes Eickhold,

Thomas FuhrmannAuthors Info & Claims

VMIL '10: Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages

Article No.: 5, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/1941054.1941059

Published: 17 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Fully decentralized systems avoid bottlenecks and single points of failure. Thus, they can provide excellent scalability and very robust operation. The DecentVM is a fully decentralized, distributed virtual machine. Its simplified instruction set allows for a small VM code footprint. Its partitioned global address space (PGAS) memory model helps to easily create a single system image (SSI) across many processors and processor cores. Originally, the VM was designed for networks of embedded 8-bit processors. Meanwhile, it also aims at clusters of many core processors. This paper gives a brief overview of the DecentVM architecture.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2160649.2160672
Bieniusa AFuhrmann T(2012)Lifting the barriers --- reducing latencies with transparent transactional memoryProceedings of the 13th international conference on Distributed Computing and Networking10.1007/978-3-642-25959-3_2(16-30)Online publication date: 3-Jan-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-25959-3_2
Fuhrmann T(2011)The J-Cell Project: Developing a Scalable and Robust Runtime Environment for Heterogeneous Many-Core ProcessorsCompetence in High Performance Computing 201010.1007/978-3-642-24025-6_3(27-37)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24025-6_3

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Kuznetsov PRavi S(2012)WTTM 2011ACM SIGACT News10.1145/2160649.216067243:1(87-92)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2160649.2160672
Bieniusa AFuhrmann T(2012)Lifting the barriers --- reducing latencies with transparent transactional memoryProceedings of the 13th international conference on Distributed Computing and Networking10.1007/978-3-642-25959-3_2(16-30)Online publication date: 3-Jan-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-25959-3_2
Fuhrmann T(2011)The J-Cell Project: Developing a Scalable and Robust Runtime Environment for Heterogeneous Many-Core ProcessorsCompetence in High Performance Computing 201010.1007/978-3-642-24025-6_3(27-37)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24025-6_3

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