protected long start(String name) {
    logger.info("Received method: {}", name);
    return System.nanoTime();
  }
Called remotely by the master controller to cause the client to execute the instance method on
the object. Does this synchronously (does not spawn a thread). This method is used by the unit
test framework, dunit.

@param target the object to execute the method on
@param methodName the name of the method to execute
@return the result of method execution
geode-dunit/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/test/dunit/internal/RemoteDUnitVM.java