#Number
TR-PDS-1995-006

#Title
A Memory Distribution Mechanism for Object Oriented Applications



#Author
Prakash Arunachalam, Craig Chase and Jacob Abraham

#Abstract
Many applications, particularly in Computer-Aided Design (CAD),
require large amounts of memory, limiting the size of problems which
can be handled.  This paper presents a new mechanism which exploits
the large amount of memory available in a cluster of workstations
for programs that are designed in an object-oriented manner.  All
the memory required for each object may be allocated in other
machines on the network, and any references to the object return the
desired item from the appropriate machine in a transparent fashion.
Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness
of this approach for a particular memory-intensive CAD application.

	
#Bib
@InProceedings{ACA95,
  author =       {Prakash Arunachalam and Craig M. Chase and
                  Jacob Abraham},
  title =        {A Memory Distribution Mechanism for Object Oriented
                  Applications},
  booktitle =    {Seventh {IEEE} Symposium on Parallel and Distributed
                  Processing},
  year =      1995,
  month =     {October},
  pages =     {354--357}
}