Publications and Annual Reports for Unify and Related Research

Distributed Shared Memory

J. Griffioen, R. Yavatkar, and R. Finkel, Unify: A Scalable Approach to Multicomputer Design, IEEE Computer Society Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environment, July, 1995 (238k ps) (73k gzip/ps) .

J. Griffioen, R. Yavatkar, and R. Finkel, Extending the Dimensions of Consistency: Spatial Consistency and Sequential Segments, University of Kentucky Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report Number CS248-94, April 1994 (231k ps) (66k gzip/ps) .

J. Griffioen, R. Yavatakar, and R. Finkel, Unify: A Scalable, Loosely-Coupled, Distributed Shared Memory Multicomputer, University of Kentucky Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS226-93, January, 1993 (253k ps) (74k gzip/ps) .

Networks

R. Yavatkar, J. Griffioen, and M. Sudan, A Reliable Dissemination Protocol for Interactive Collaborative Applications, In the Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '95 Conference, November, 1995 (249k ps) (87k gzip/ps) .

Reactive Objects

James E. Lumpp, Jr., James Griffioen, Rajandra Yavatkar, Thomas Kay, Christopher Diaz, High-Level Reactive Support for Scalable Distributed Systems, IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Operating systems: Special Issue on Multiprocessor and Distributed Operating Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 13-27, September, 1996 (443kps) (163k gzip/ps)

Dynamic Consistency Protocols

Christopher Diaz and James Griffioen, A Measurement-Based Algorithm for Mapping Consistency Protocols to Shared Data, The Second International Workshop on Software Distributed Shared Memory (in conjunction with The International Conference of Supercomputing), May 2000. (postscript - 130K) (postscript,gzipped - 33K)

Christopher Diaz and James Griffioen, Measuring Consistency Costs for Distributed Shared Data, LCR2000: Fifth Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers (In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN), May 2000. (postscript - 880K) (postscript,gzipped - 124K)

Synchronization

Rajitha Sumanasekera, James Griffioen, James E. Lumpp, Jr., Rajandra Yavatkar, SEClib: Scalable Distributed Synchronization with Eventcounts, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 1998, submitted for review.

Checkpointing

James E. Lumpp, Jr. and William R. Dieter, Checkpointing with Multicast Communication, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE-Aerospace Conference, Mar. 1998 (697k ps) (225k gzip/ps).

William R. Dieter and James E. Lumpp, Jr., Fault Recovery for Distributed Shared Memory Systems, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE-Aerospace Conference, Feb. 1997 (724k ps) (245k gzip/ps).

Tools

James E. Lumpp, Kuppuswamy Sivakumar, Chris Diaz, James Griffioen, Xunify -- A Performance Debugger for a Distributed Shared Memory System, In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-31): Virtual Shared Memory for Distributed Architectures, January 1998 (432k ps) (73k gzip/ps).

Parallel and Distributed Applications

James Griffioen, Brent Seales, and Rajandra Yavatkar, Multiple Target Tracking Across Reliable Multicast Wireless Networks, In Proceedings of the Int. Soc. for Optical Engr: Sensor Fusion and Distributed Robotic Agents, Oct 1997 (414k ps) (414k gzip/ps).

Amy M. Levy and Raphael Finkel, Measure of Efficiency on Heterogeneous Machines, UK CS Technical Report 217-97, May 1997 (121k ps) (51k gzip/ps).

Timothy J. Rademacher and James E. Lumpp, Jr., High-Performance Simulation of Neural Networks, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE-Aerospace Conference, Feb. 1997 (982k ps) (221k gzip/ps)