Title :
The varieties of single system image
Author :
Pfister, Gregory F.
Author_Institution :
IBM Adv. Workstations & Syst. Div., Austin, TX, USA
fDate :
10/6/1993 12:00:00 AM
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/APADS.1993.588768
