--- Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, this kind of work has been done in research -
> emulating SMP on
> a cluster. The technique is called Distributed
> Shared Memory (DSM).
> You play tricks with page table entries and fault
> handlers communicate
> over the network.
>
>
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/bib/dsmbiblio/dsmbiblio.html
>
> In this method, you essentially code to the pthread
> API and everything
> happens automagically.
>
thanx for that. But how much is the overhead on
communicating the page tables on the network, what
kind of network will u need? that was one of my
questions too.
Nikhil.
> -Arun
>
>
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