Software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) provides a shared-memory abstraction on distributed memory hardware, making a parallel programmer's task easier. Unfortunately, software DSM is less efficient than the direct use of the underlying message-passing hardware. The chief reason for this is that hand-coded and compiler-generated message-passing ...

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