Distributed Computing Environment: An Architecture For Supporting Change?

Abstract

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) has been in development for about five years but has only been widely used in the last two years. It consists of a number of services that have been selected from current proprietary distributed facilities and integrated so that they work together. Together these services form an architecture for distributed computing that enables users to carry out the new, cheaper operations they require with the interoperability, reliability and security standards of mainframe computers. The facilities provided by DCE are often reviewed from either the perspective of reliability or the perspective of interoperability. This paper reviews the facilities of DCE from the perspective of change. An architecture is proposed which will support the evolution of information systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA307256

Entities

People

  • J. Clothier
  • J. Mansfield

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Distributed Computing
  • Electronics
  • Engineering
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Systems
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Software Engineering.