PUMA: An Operating System for Massively Parallel Systems

This article presents an overview of PUMA (Performance-oriented, User-managed Messaging Architecture), a message-passing kernel for massively parallel systems. Message passing in PUMA is based on portals – an opening in the address space of an application process. Once an application process has est...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stephen R. Wheat, Arthur B. Maccabe, Rolf Riesen, David W. Van Dresser, T. Mack Stallcup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1994-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1994/602764

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