Replication and Fault-Tolerance in the ISIS System. Revised.

Abstract

The ISIS system transforms abstract type specifications into fault-tolerant distributed program implementations while insulating users from the mechanisms used to achieve fault-tolerance. This paper discusses techniques for obtaining a fault-tolerant implementation from a non-distributed specification and for achieving improved performance by concurrently updating replicated data. The system itself is based on a small set of communication primitives, which are interesting because they achieve high levels of concurrency while respecting higher level ordering requirements. The performance of distributed fault-tolerant services running on this initial version of ISIS is found to be nearly as good as that of non-distributed, fault-intolerant ones. Additional keywords: computer programming; high level languages; computer communications; computer architecture. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA160039

Entities

People

  • K. P. Birman

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Fault Tolerance
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Multithreading
  • Programming Languages
  • Specifications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems