Abstract: Traditionally in a NoW each user works on his workstation independently of the other users. So, it is possible that a user needs more resources than those offered by his workstation, whereas the resources of other workstations may be under-used. This paper presents the design of two integrated mechanisms which efficiently use the physical memories and processors of a NoW to improve the application performance. Integrated memory and processor management allows to define a policy to choose process or data migration according to machine load, memory occupation, and process data access pattern. Computational intensive applications which require large amounts of data may be executed efficiently in a NoW thanks to this strategy.

Keywords: NoW, resource management, remote memory paging, process migration.