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Design and implementation of the Friends system

  • Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems Dimiter Avresky, Boston University David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University
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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1998)

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Abstract

The paper describes a metaobject architecture for distributed fault tolerant systems. Basically metaobject protocols enables functional objects to be independent from meta-functional properties implemented by metaobjects. Metaobjects can thus be specialised for fault tolerance, security, distribution and used on a case-by-case basic within application. The runtime support for metaobjects must include basic common services required in distributed fault tolerant computing (i.e. atomic multicast protocols and group management facilities, detection mechanisms). Off-the-shelf microkernels correspond to the very basic layer of the system. Architectural issues, application issues, development issues, experimental and performance issues are presented. Some implementation details and properties (ease of use, reusability, configurability, etc., namely flexibility) of our system are also discussed. Two prototypes have been developed today, the last one being based on the Chorus microkemel.

This work was partially supported by the DeVa Esprit project n°20072.

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Fabre, JC. (1998). Design and implementation of the Friends system. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1388. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64359-1_731

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