Harmonizing a distributed operating system with parallel and distributed applications

Author

Shinjo, Yasushi ; Kiyoki, Yasushi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Electron., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

9-11 Sep 1992

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

123

Abstract

This paper presents several methods for harmonizing a distributed operating system with parallel and distributed applications. `Harmonization´ means that the system does not conflict with the parallel/distributed applications and enables them to control mapping and scheduling for speedup and reliability. In conventional distributed operating systems, one of the most important goals is to achieve network transparency. However, parallel/distributed applications have to bypass the facilities for network transparency because they require information on the locations and usage of system resources. Harmonization between the system and parallel/distributed applications are realized by putting some parts of the system into the same position as the applications

Keywords

distributed processing; network operating systems; parallel processing; distributed applications; distributed operating system; harmonization; mapping; network transparency; parallel applications; reliability; scheduling; speedup; system resources; Application software; Computer applications; Control systems; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Kernel; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Reduced instruction set computing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Performance Distributed Computing, 1992. (HPDC-1), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2970-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1992.246481

Filename

246481