Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wyliang@archi4.ee.ntu.edu.tw (William W. Y. Liang (CSIE D83))
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Adsmith 1.0, A DSM on PVM
Organization: Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Eng., Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan
Date: 8 Feb 1996 10:41:06 GMT
Message-ID: <4fck02$6re@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>

                        Announcement for Adsmith 1.0
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          Adsmith: An Efficient Object-Based DSM Environment on PVM
 
                        Author:  William W. Y. Liang
 
           Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering
                   National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
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System Description

  Adsmith is an object-based DSM, which is built completely on top of PVM
  using C++. In Adsmith, the shared memory consists of many shared objects. 
  Accesses to the shared memory must go through these shared objects. 
  Adsmith provides primitives to create and allocate shared objects, 
  accesses to shared objects, and operations to synchronize among processes. 
  Adsmith also incorporate many techniques to optimize its performance, 
  including supports for release memory consistency protocol, 
  load/store-like memory accesses, nonblocking and atomic accesses, etc. 
  It has been tested to work under the Sun OS, Linux, etc. The compiler used 
  is GNU C++.


Obtaining The Package

  This distribution contains source codes, simple examples, and a run-time
  support for Adsmith. You can obtain the package through the following 
  location (URL):  

	http://archi1.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~wyliang/adsmith/adsmith.tar.gz


More Information

  For more information, please navigate the Adsmith home page:

	http://archi1.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~wyliang/adsmith


Contact

  Any comments, questions, suggestions, or bug reports are welcome.
  Please send e-mail to:

        wyliang@orchid.ee.ntu.edu.tw


