DocumentCode
2353650
Title
Fault tolerant remote procedure call
Author
Yap, Kiam S. ; Jalote, Pankaj ; Tripathi, Satish
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
fYear
1988
fDate
13-17 Jun 1988
Firstpage
48
Lastpage
54
Abstract
A scheme is presented that makes a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism fault-tolerant to hardware failures. Fault tolerance is provided by replicating the procedure at a group of nodes, called a cluster. The copies in a cluster are linearly ordered. A call to a procedure is sent to the first copy in the cluster and is propagated internally to all other copies. In the event of failures, the first copy in the cluster that has not failed returns the result to the caller. The scheme is transparent to the user and supports nested procedure calls. It has been implemented on a network of Sun workstations making use of Sun´s existing RPC mechanism
Keywords
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; Sun workstations; cluster; fault tolerant remote procedure call; hardware failures; nested procedure calls; Computer languages; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Drives; Educational institutions; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Sun; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Distributed Computing Systems, 1988., 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-0865-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/DCS.1988.12499
Filename
12499
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