This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop on "Experiences with Distributed Systems" held September 28-30, 1987, at the University of Kaiserslautern. The workshop was jointly sponsored and organized by the Sonderforschungsbereich 124 "VSLI-Entwurfsmethoden und Parallelität" and the European Network Center (ENC) of the IBM Corporation, Heidelberg. The objective of the workshop was to bring together researchers who had gathered substantial experience with the implementation of distributed systems. The emphasis was put on the exchange of (good and bad) experiences with existing concepts in distributed system design rather than presenting new ideas. Participation in the workshop was by invitation only. The presentations can be roughly categorized as reports on a specific project or reports on experiences with a certain topic accumulated through several projects. Other lectures treated general topics such as fault tolerance, design principles for distributed languages and systems, and distributed databases.
Author(s): Prof. Dr. J. Nehmer (auth.), J. Nehmer (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 309
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 293
Tags: Software Engineering; Operating Systems
On the adequate support of communication interfaces in distributed systems....Pages 1-18
On the duality of fault tolerant system structures....Pages 19-37
Process management in a distributed operating system....Pages 38-51
Experiences with the development of a portable Network Operating System....Pages 52-88
Accommodating heterogeneity....Pages 89-103
Design principles of operating systems for large scale multicomputers....Pages 104-123
The distributed system POOL....Pages 124-161
A distributed process execution and communication environment for high-performance application systems....Pages 162-188
Distributed system construction: Experience with the conic toolkit....Pages 189-212
Which kinds of OS mechanisms should be provided for database management?....Pages 213-252
Specification and implementation of a standard for remote database access....Pages 253-270
Observations on building distributed languages and systems....Pages 271-291
