Treffer: The MPE toolkit for supporting distributed applications.

This paper presents a toolkit for supporting the execution of coarse-grain, parallel (distributed) application under the MOSIX multicomputer operating system. These tools use standard UNIX System V process control and message-passing facilities, as well as the dynamic process migration mechanisms of MOSIX. The MPE tools can be used to modify sequential applications that were originally written for execution in a uniprocesses environment, to run efficiently in a disturbed environment, consisting of several loosely coupled independent computers that communicate by messages. After presenting the MPE tools, the paper gives examples of several sequential algorithms that have been modified for execution in such a disturbed multicomputer, as well as the resulting execution speed-ups that were obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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