Decentralized Computing Technology for Fault-Tolerant, Survivable C3I systems. Volume 2

Abstract

Alpha is an operating system for the mission-critical integration and operation of large, complex, distributed, real time systems. Such systems are becoming increasingly common in both military (e.g., BM/C3, combat platform management) and industrial factory and plant automation (e.g., automobile manufacturing) contexts. They differ substantially from the better-known timesharing systems, numerically-oriented supercomputers, and networks of personal workstations. More surprisingly, they also depart significantly from traditional real-time systems, which are predominately for low-level periodic sampled data monitoring and control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA232290

Entities

People

  • E. D. Jensen
  • Edward J. Burke
  • J. D. Northcutt
  • James G. Hanko
  • Raymond K. Clark

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • C Programming Language
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Embedded Systems
  • High Level Languages
  • Message Systems
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Resource Management
  • Structured Programming

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control