The architecture of the DecentVM: towards a decentralized virtual machine for many-core computing
University of Freiburg, Germany
Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages, VMIL ’10, 2010
@inproceedings{bieniusa2010architecture,
title={The architecture of the DecentVM: towards a decentralized virtual machine for many-core computing},
author={Bieniusa, A. and Eickhold, J. and Fuhrmann, T.},
booktitle={Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages},
pages={5},
year={2010},
organization={ACM}
}
Fully decentralized systems avoid bottlenecks and single points of failure. Thus, they can provide excellent scalability and very robust operation. The DecentVM is a fully decentralized, distributed virtual machine. Its simplified instruction set allows for a small VM code footprint. Its partitioned global address space (PGAS) memory model helps to easily create a single system image (SSI) across many processors and processor cores. Originally, the VM was designed for networks of embedded 8-bit processors. Meanwhile, it also aims at clusters of many core processors. This paper gives a brief overview of the DecentVM architecture.
September 9, 2011 by hgpu
