marina@ai.toronto.edu (Marina Haloulos) (12/12/89)
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
(GB = Gailbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)
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SYSTEMS SEMINAR
GB244, at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday 12 December 1989
Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
"The Amoeba Distributed Operating System"
Amoeba is an operating system designed for an environment in which the
number of processors is much larger than the number of available users.
It's goal is to provide the users with the illusion of a virtual
uniprocessor on top of hardware that is physically distributed, potentially
over large distances. The system is object-based, with objects being
protected by a cryptographically-secure capabilities. Various aspects of
the design will bes discussed, including the protection scheme, file
server, directory server, and operation over wide-area networks.