TITLE:   An overview of distributed application support 
	 on the homogeneous multiprocessor
	 
AUTHORS: Li, K.F., and N.J. Dimopoulos

IN:      Proceedings of 1988 Can. Conf. on Electrical and 
	 Computer Engineering, Vancouver, BC, 
	 pp. 443-446, Nov. 1988. 
	 

ABSTRACT 

The Homogeneous Multiprocessor is a tightly-coupled MIMD machine
featuring both networking and shared memory. Operating system 
facilities for the Homogeneous Multiprocessor are based on an 
operating system nucleus-the HM-Nucleus - which is a hierarchical 
design that permits modularity, and information and decision hiding. 
This paper focuses on the features that support distributed 
applications such as image processing, tree search, and simulation. 
These features include a nearest neighbour communication scheme 
for adjoining processors using shared regions and the management 
of distributed data structures by using reliable and consistent 
updating mechanisms. The goal of this work is to provide users with 
abstractions of the prominent hardware features in running 
distributed applications.