Toward Optimizing Distributed Programs Directed by Configurations
Toward Optimizing Distributed Programs Directed by Configurations
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1998-10-15
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Kim, Tae-Hyung
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Networks of workstations are now viable environments for running distributed
and parallel applications. Recent advances in software interconnection
technology enables programmers to prepare applications to run in dynamically
changing environments because module interconnection activity is regarded as
an essentially distinct and different intellectual activity so as isolated
from that of implementing individual modules. But there remains the question
of how to optimize the performance of those applications for a given execution
environment: how can developers realize performance gains without paying a high
programming cost to specialize their application for the target environment?
Interconnection technology has allowed programmers to tailor and tune their
applications on distributed environments, but the traditional approach to this
process has ignored the performance issue over gracefully seemless integration
of various software components.