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Operating System Support for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

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Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen

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Our view of a distributed system is a set of cooperating autonomous nodes interconnected by a fast communication network. Each node has some processing and storage capabilities. There is no physically shared memory between nodes. All communication is accomplished via some network transport service.

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Geihs, K., Staroste, R., Eberle, H. (1987). Operating System Support for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. In: Gerner, N., Spaniol, O. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71655-3_16

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