Light-Weight Process Groups in the ISIS System

Abstract

ISIS is a toolkit for building applications consisting of cooperating processes in a distributed system. Group management and group communication are two basic building blocks provided by ISIS. This approach has proven successful, and ISIS' large user community is putting substantial demands on these mechanisms. To accommodate these demands a complete redesign of the system, called HORUS, is being done to build a simpler and faster system that scales well. Of particular concern is the support and management of hundreds of thousands or more process groups. This paper describes a component of HORUS known as light-weight process groups that addresses this scaling issue.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267270

Entities

People

  • Bradford B. Glade
  • Ken Birman
  • Robbert Van Renesse
  • Robert C. Cooper

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Communication Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Damage Detection
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Prototypes
  • Replicas
  • Resource Management
  • Semantics
  • Servers (Computer Hardware)
  • Switches
  • Transport Protocols
  • Transport Ships

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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