al@perisl.UUCP (Al Schuilenburg) (02/26/91)
A while ago (June '90) there was an article which appeared here which contained a list of known Distributed/Parallel Operating Systems (Commercial and Academic) with a crude description of each and a contact person/company for each. What I would like to know is has anyone kept this list up to date, and if so could you please mail me a copy. More importantly, could anyone please give me contact addresses of people, companies and universities doing R&D work on any of the following ? Mach, Amoeba, Topaz, MPX, QIX, Peace, Trollius, Helios, Chorus, Plan-9, TransIDRIS The reason for all this is that I am trying to do an article on the current trends of Parallel Operating systems on shared and distributed memory multi-processor machines. I am interested in what standards are appearing, architectural compatability, scaleabilty (# of processors -limit?), efficiency etc etc. Anyone who has that sort of information, please let me know and if possible email me what you can. Once complete I will post the article on the trends back here for your collective info. Thanks Alex Schuilenburg al@perisl.uucp
timk@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Tim Kindberg) (02/28/91)
>A while ago (June '90) there was an article which appeared here which >contained a list of known Distributed/Parallel Operating Systems >(Commercial and Academic) with a crude description of each and a contact >person/company for each. What I would like to know is has anyone kept >this list up to date, and if so could you please mail me a copy. > >More importantly, could anyone please give me contact addresses of >people, companies and universities doing R&D work on any of the following ? > Mach, Amoeba, Topaz, MPX, QIX, Peace, > Trollius, Helios, Chorus, Plan-9, TransIDRIS > I would like to add Equus to this list, developed originally at the Polytechnic of Central London, and now based as a project at the Centre for Parallel Computing, here at QMW. It is aimed primarily at supporting reconfigurable distributed & parallel computations, and in particular reconfigurable multiple-process servers. It includes process migration, and constructs for reconfiguring communications connections. It has been implemented on a 12 * 68030 system, which includes a UNIX node. References: "Equus: A Parallel Operating System", D. Pountain, Byte, Sep. 89, pp 80IS-3 - 80IS-8. "Horsebox", A. Sherman, T.Kindberg, Parallelogram, no. 14, May 89, pp 18-19. Tim Kindberg UUCP: timk@qmw-cs.uucp | Computer Science Dept ARPA: timk%cs.qmw.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | QMW, University of London JANET: timk@uk.ac.qmw.cs | Mile End Road Voice: +44 71 975 5236 (Direct Dial) | London E1 4NS