DocumentCode
1684431
Title
The varieties of single system image
Author
Pfister, Gregory F.
Author_Institution
IBM Adv. Workstations & Syst. Div., Austin, TX, USA
fYear
1993
fDate
10/6/1993 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
59
Lastpage
63
Abstract
A single system image is the illusion that a collection of otherwise independent computing engines is a single computational resource. But any single system image has a boundary: Within it one perceives unity; outside it there is multiplicity. So many single system images can co-exist in one system. The types of single systems images can be arranged in a hierarchy, ranging from application-level through operating system to hardware. An eight-level hierarchy of single system images is presented and described
Keywords
distributed processing; operating systems (computers); parallel architectures; application-level; eight-level hierarchy; operating system; single system image; Authentication; Condition monitoring; Distributed databases; Engines; File systems; Hardware; Image databases; Operating systems; Transaction databases; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN
0-8186-5250-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/APADS.1993.588768
Filename
588768
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