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!!Papers related to VMS
  
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[[http://opensourceresearchinstitute.org/content/VMS/Jan_2011_Hotpar_Port_Perf_final.pdf | Support for the Collective Effort Towards Portable Performance]]
->This is the first paper published that mentions VMS, in HotPar 2011.  It is a position paper arguing for a segment-wide infrastructure to support portability. VMS is mentioned as a candidate to base this on.
    
[[{$:URLStart}/content/VMS/June_2011__Thread_replacement__Photo_Ready__LNCS.pdf|A Mutable Hardware Abstraction to Replace Threads]]
->The first paper to give a detailed specification of VMS, in LCPC 2011. It gives technical depth and early measurements of time to create a plugin,  VMS overhead, and performance comparisons.

[[http://opensourceresearchinstitute.org/uploads/VMS/12_Ja_20__HotPar_Abstr_for_PStack.pdf | Supporting the Performant-Portability Software Stack with the Virtualized Master-Slave Abstraction]] VMS proto-runtime as support for a portability software stack.  Includes performance comparisons between the best Linux thread implementation and the VMS based implementation, which is from 5x to 1000x lower overhead than Linux threads.

Dissertation: [[{$:URLStart}/content/VMS/SeanHalle_Dissertation_2011.pdf|A Study of Frameworks for Collectively Meeting the Productivity, Portability, and Adoptability Goals for Parallel Software]]
->This PhD Dissertation was published in 2011. It explains the problem being solved by parallelism research, and introduces new computation models as a basis for understanding parallel computation. The next-to-last 2 chapters cover VMS. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are useful background for understanding VMS, and 2, 3, and 4 are useful for understanding the use of VMS as a base for portability infrastructure..