Collective Replication

Requested in

• Replicated objects with collective update: ticket:157
• Transparent replicated objects: ticket:158

Requires

• Differencing and patching object graphs: ticket:156
• Distributed graph coloring
  • DLF
  • IncDLF

Related features

• Partial replication: ticket:171
  • Optimized collective updates: ticket:213
    • Frozen objects: ticket:222
  • Redistribution of partially replicated graphs: ticket:208

• Special collective operations on replicated objects
  • Simple collective barrier() method for replicated objects: ticket:188
  • Collective exchange: ticket:177
    • Semantics of collective exchange operations: ticket:180

• Merge annotations for collective replicated objects: ticket:179
• Main objects and accompanying objects within a replicated graph: ticket:205
• Explicitly distributing arrays within a replicated graph: ticket:206
• Garbage collection within a replicated graph: ticket:207
• Deadlock when collective updates produce large patches: ticket:165

• Debugging and reflection
  • An introspection interface for replicated objects: ticket:212

Unrelated features

• Replicated static constants: ticket:118

Techniques

• For performance reasons, it may be beneficial to have some of the state of a replicated graph excluded from updates. See: ExcludedState.