Wide-Area Computing: Resource Sharing on a Large Scale

Abstract

Computing over wide-area networks has been largely ad hoc, but as needs increase, piecemeal solutions no longer make sense. Legion, a network-level operating system, was designed from scratch to target wide-area computing demands.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA455550

Entities

People

  • Adam Ferrari
  • Andrew Grimshaw
  • Frederick Knabe
  • Marty Humphrey

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Cybersecurity
  • Distributed Computing
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Language
  • Materials Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Resource Management
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design