Distributed operating systems based on a protected global virtual address space (1992)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems |
| Citations: | 11 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Carter92distributedoperating,
author = {John B. Carter and Alan L. Cox and David B. Johnson and Willy Zwaenepoel},
title = {Distributed operating systems based on a protected global virtual address space},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems},
year = {1992},
pages = {75--79}
}
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Abstract
With the advent of the 64bit microprocessor, the virtual address space supported by a workstation will be large enough to permit the use of a single shared address space spanning a network of workstations as the primary abstraction provided by a distributed operating system. In such a system, built upon a software distributed shared memory, the programmer has considerable flexibility when choosing a mech-anism for interprocess communication. This flexibility permits the programmer to make a case-by-case choice between simplicity and performance when both goals are not simultaneously achievable. With the inclusion of mechanisms supporting protection and fault tolerance, we believe that such a system can provide the advantages of conventional message-based distributed operating systems (e.g., multi-ple protection domains, hidden data abstractions, simple client-server interface, and failure isolation), in addition to several other benefits (e.g., easy sharing of complex data structures between processes, transparent replication of server functions, and a uniform interface for all communication). 1
