Message Driven File System: A Network Accessible File System for Fine-Grain Message Passing Multicomputers.

摘要

This thesis describes an experimental message-driven file system and its implementation on a 512-computer J-machine with thirty-two, 402Mb SCSI disks. The J-machine (5) is an architectural experiment which focuses on the evaluation of hardware support for concurrent execution and active messages. The hardware is designed to scale to many thousands of fine-grain nodes, each of which has a relatively small local memory (1Mb) but fast communications. Active messages are supported directly through the hardware process model and integrated low latency messaging model.