A flexible system call interface for interprocessor communication in a distributed memory multicomputer
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
- Vol. 25 (2) , 4-21
- https://doi.org/10.1145/122120.122121
Abstract
The Multifaceted Communication System for the distributed memory NCUBE is an interprocessor communication system that supports many features useful for application programs: asynchronous, partially and fully synchronous calls in blocking and non-blocking modes, buffered and unbuffered transmissions, gather and scatter operations, broadcasting, a general pipe mechanism, and file operations. A major achievement of this design is the use of a single, consistent user interface. This paper describes the main features of that interface and the semantics of the operations it embodies.Keywords
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