@inproceedings{a7ce4d1672e44f35b724e1b368f4d5ef,
title = "Generic Messages: Capability-based Shared Memory Parallelism for Event-loop Systems",
abstract = "Systems based on event-loops have been popularized by Node.JS, and are becoming a key technology in the domain of cloud computing. Despite their popularity, such systems support only share-nothing parallelism via message passing between parallel entities usually called workers. In this paper, we introduce a novel parallel programming abstraction called Generic Messages (GEMs), which enables shared-memory parallelism for share-nothing event-based systems. A key characteristic of GEMs is that they enable workers to share state by specifying how the state can be accessed once it is shared. We call this aspect of the GEMs model capability-based parallelism.",
keywords = "Event-loop systems, Generic messages, Node.JS, Shared memory",
author = "Luca Salucci and Daniele Bonetta and Stefan Marr and Walter Binder",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 21st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPoPP 2016 ; Conference date: 12-03-2016 Through 16-03-2016",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/2851141.2851184",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1--2",
booktitle = "21st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPoPP 2016 - Proceedings",
}