Abstract Machine Models for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Abstract Machine Models for Parallel and Distributed Computing
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并行和分布式计算的抽象机器模型
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1996
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J. M. Nash
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M. Kara;J. Davy;D. Goodeve;J. M. Nash
抽象的机器模型在现代计算系统的发展中扮演了重要的角色，尽管常常没有得到承认。它们提供了重要概念的准确定义，允许通过提供所考虑的活动的适当视图来管理系统复杂性，能够对提出的问题解决方案的正确性和量化性能进行推理，并鼓励通过共同的表达媒介进行交流。本书试图结合并行和分布式计算来展示这一角色在当代系统中的重要性。并行和分布式模型的支持者传统上认为自己是独立的。然而，本文指出了当代对这两个社区在公共硬件模型中的重大兴趣：一组连接在高性能网络中的工作站级机器。因此，这表明传统的并行/分布式区分似乎受到了威胁。
Abstract machine models have played an important, although frequently unacknowledged, role in the development of modern computing systems. They provide a precise definition of vital concepts, allow system complexity to be managed by providing appropriate views of the activity under consideration, enable reasoning about the correctness and quantitative performance of proposed problem solutions, and encourage communication through a common medium of expression. This volume attempts to demonstrate the importance of that role in contemporary systems, in conjunction with parallel and distributed computing. The proponents of parallel and distributed models have traditionally considered themselves to be separate. However, this text indicates a significant contemporary interest in both of these communities in a common hardware model: a set of workstation-class machines connected in a high-performance network. It therefore shows that the traditional parallel/distributed distinction appears to be under threat.