CRONUS, A Distributed Operating System. Volume 4. CRONUS DOS implementation

Abstract

This is the final report for the second contract phase for development of the Cronus Project. Cronus is the name given to the distributed operating system (DOS) and system architecture for distributed application development environment being designed and implemented by BBN Laboratories for the Air Force Rome Air Development Center (RADC). The project was begun in 1981. The Cronus distributed operating system is intended to promote resource sharing among interconnected computer systems and manage the collection of resources which are shared. Its major purpose is to provide a coherent and integrated system based on clusters of interconnected heterogeneous computers to support the development and use of distributed applications. Distributed applications range from simple programs that merely require convenient reference to remote data, to collections of complex distributions of Cronus is a unifying architecture and model for developing these distributed applications, as well as support for a number of system-provided functions which are common to many applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA199892

Entities

People

  • E. Schroder
  • G. Bono
  • K. Lam
  • K. Lebowitz
  • M. Barrow
  • M. Dean
  • P. Neves
  • R. Gurwitz
  • R. Sands
  • R. Schantz
  • S. Lipson

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • C Programming Language
  • Command And Control
  • Compilers
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Links
  • Debugging
  • Environment
  • Local Area Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering