ASTRA-an asynchronous remote procedure call facility

Author

Ananda, A.L. ; Tay, B.H. ; Koh, E.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

1991

fDate

20-24 May 1991

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

179

Abstract

A transport-independent asynchronous RPC (remote procedure call) mechanism (ASTRA) that combines the advantages of both RPC and message-passing IPC (interprocess communication) has been designed and implemented. ASTRA calls do not block the caller (client) and the replies can be received as and when they are needed, thus allowing the client execution to proceed locally in parallel with the server invocation. All the calls are received and executed by the server in the order called by the client. ASTRA is unique among other asynchronous RPC systems in allowing its users to explicitly specify whether low-latency or high-throughput is required for a call, and in providing highly optimized lightweight intramachine calls. ASTRA is built within the framework of the SHILPA distributed computing environment

Keywords

distributed processing; ASTRA; SHILPA distributed computing environment; caller; client execution; high-throughput; interprocess communication; intramachine calls; low-latency; message-passing IPC; remote procedure call; server invocation; transport-independent asynchronous RPC; Buildings; Costs; Data conversion; Environmental economics; Error correction; Information technology; Message passing; Operating systems; Transport protocols; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1991., 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1991.148661

Filename

148661