Heterogeneity in TreadMarks DSM system

Heterogeneity in distributed systems is increasingly inevitable. It is highly desirable to build networks for parallel computing with different kind of computers. This concerns particularly Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems that allow shared memory programming on top of networks of workstations. This report studies how to support heterogeneity in a particular DSM system developed at Rice University called TreadMarks. We modified TreadMarks in two steps : first we adjusted TreadMarks for networks made up of machines with the same byte ordering and then we studied the case of different byte ordering. R'esum'e L'h'et'erog'en'eit'e attire de plus en plus d'attentions lorsque l'on parle de syst `emes distribu'es. Il est, en effet, interessant de pouvoir faire du parall`elisme sur des r'eseaux compos'es de machines diverses. Cela concerne plus particuli`erement les syst`emes de M'emoire Distribu'ee Virtuellement Partag'ee (MDVP) qui permettent une programmation parall`ele bas'ee sur ..