cdash@MUMM.COLORADO.EDU (Charles Shub) (10/23/90)
In news article <8090@darkstar.ucsc.edu> you wrote: => => We wish to experiment with operating systems (or systems that may be => overlayed on top operating systems) that support distributed computing. We => would like something that exists now as a reasonably stable product. I would => appreciate both suggestions and comments on experiences with such systems. => => % You might look into ISIS. The TRs are available via anonymous FTP from => % cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu --DL => => I would also appreciate your views on definitional issues. In particular, is => there a consensus about the kinds of services a distributed operating system => should offer? For example, presumably providing just basic network services, => or just remote procedure calls, or just remote file system access, etc. isn't => enough. What should one expect of a system that calls itself a distributed => operating system? As my list of possible services suggest, is there a => useful, commonly acepted conceptual partioning of distributed operating => system services? => => Thanks. => => -- Russ Abbott@itro3.aero.org you might also look at the V system from stanford. it runs on several platforms. On your quest for definitional issues, thre are several papers on distributed systems around. you might try: Almes, G. T., Black, A. T., Lazowska, E. D., and Noe, J. D., \fI"The Eden System: A Technical Review,"\fR IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1985, Pages 43 - 59. Banino, J. S., Fabre, J. C., Guillemont, M., Morisset, G., and Rozier, M., \fISome Fault Tolerant Aspects of the CHORUS Distributed System,"\fR Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Systems, March, 1985, Pages 430 - 437. Black, A., \fI"Supporting Distributed Applications: Experience with Eden,"\fR Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Orcas Island, Washington, December, 1985, Pages 181 - 193. Cheriton, D. R., \fI"The V Kernel: A Software Base for Distributed Systems,"\fR IEEE Software, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1984, Pages 19 - 42. Cheriton, D. R., \fI"The V Distributed System,"\fR Communications of the ACM, Volume 31, Number 3, March, 1988, Pages 314 - 333. Miller, B. et. al., \fI"DEMOS/MP: The Development of a Distributed Operating System,"\fR Software Practice and Experience, Volume 17, Number 4, April, 1987, Pages 277 - 290. Ousterhout, J. K., Cherenson, A. R., Douglis, F., Nelson, M. N., and Welch, B. B., \fI"The Sprite Network Operating System,"\fR IEEE Computer, February, 1988, Pages 23 - 45. Tanenbaum, A. S. and van Renesse, R., \fI"Distributed Operating Systems,"\fR Computing Surveys, Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1985, Pages 419 - 470. Walker, B., Popek, G., English, R., Kline, C., and Thiel, G., \fI"The LOCUS Distributed Operating System,"\fR Operating Systems Review, Volume 17, Number 5, December, 1983, Pages 49 - 70. -- charlie shub cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU -or- ..!{ncar|nbires}!boulder!cdash or even cdash@colospgs (BITNET) -or- (719) 593-3492