Dynamic Reconfiguration with I/O Abstraction

Bala Swaminathan, Kenneth J. Goldman
This paper describes the Playground module migration feature that allows transparent run-time module migration. This permits modules to be moved for load-balancing or hardware maintenance without interruption of service.

The technical report version is available as postscript (.ps) or compressed postscript (.ps.Z).


Short version to appear as Swaminathan, B. and Goldman, K., ``Dynamic Reconfiguration with I/O Abstraction,'' Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP), San Antonio, Texas, October 1995.

Washington University Department of Computer Science WUCS-93-21, September 1993.


Prepared by T. Paul McCartney (paul@cs.wustl.edu)
Washington University Department of Computer Science