ISIS: A System for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing

Abstract

The ISIS system transforms abstract type specifications into fault- tolerant distributed implementations, while insulating users from the mechanisms whereby fault-tolerance is achieved. This paper discusses the transformations that are used within ISIS, methods for achieving improved performance by concurrently updating replicated data, and user-level issues that arise when ISIS is employed to solve a fault-tolerant distributed problem. We describe a small set of communication primitives upon which the system is based. These achieve high levels of concurrency while respecting ordering requirements imposed by the caller. Finally, the performance of a prototype is reported for a variety of system loads and configurations. In particular, we demonstrate that performance of a replicated object in ISIS can equal or exceed that of a nonreplicated object.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA166770

Entities

People

  • Ken Birman

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Distributed Computing
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Language
  • Local Area Networks
  • Models
  • Multithreading
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Prototypes

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems