mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) (07/08/85)
%A Neil Gammage %A Liam Casey %T XMS: a rendezvous-based distributed system software architecture %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 9-19 %D MAY 1985 %X XMS creates a single, powerful system from loosely-coupled microcomputers. Programs work together across nodes, making systemwide resource mangagement transparent and distributed system design simpler %A Marek Fridrich %A William Older %T Helix: the architecture of the XMS distributed file system %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 21-29 %D MAY 1985 %X With abstraction layering and system decomposition, all the user sees is one homogeneous system. Behind the scene, the architecture is supporting 15 LANs and close to 1000 workstations %A Eric J. Berglund %A David R. Cheriton %T Amaze: a multiplayer computer game %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 30-39 %D MAY 1985 %X Amaze relies solely on the V kernel for point-to-point communication. The game's techniques could work in a general class of distributed applications %A Thomas J. LeBlanc %A Robert P. Cook %T High-level broadcast communication for local area networks %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 40-48 %D MAY 1985 %X Even for LANs without broadcast-supporting hardware, this program offers improvements of from 1.1 to 7.8 over point-to-point message transmission-- and that's the worst-case gain. %A Ariel J. Frank %A Larry D. Wittie %A Arthur J. Bernstein %T Multicast communication on network computers %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 49-61 %D MAY 1985 %X Channel-oriented packet casting is a predominat feature of Micros, an operating system designed to explore control and communication techniques for netcomputers with thousands of hosts. %A Mark C. Paulk %T The ARC network: a case study %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 62-69 %D MAY 1985 %X Designed around VAX and devleoped for ballistic missile defense systems, this network offers error-free message passing and can absorb overhead unacceptable to general-purpose networks. %A Robert J. Douglass %T A qualitative assessment of parallelism in expert systems %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 70-81 %D MAY 1985 %X Developers envision epxert systems than can make up to one billion inferences per second. This will require full utilization of a system's potential for parallel processing. %A Sanjai Narain %T Mycin: the expert system and its implementation in Loglisp %J IEEE Software %V 2 %N 3 %P 83-88 %D MAY 1985 %X A translation of Mycin, an expert system used in medical consultations, in to Loglisp, a logic programming system, is comparable in terms of clarity speed, and space requirements. -- Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney North Carolina State University