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Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond pp 44–47Cite as

Closely coupled systems

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Rapidly increasing performance requirements of large applications have led to the development of closely coupled systems. These systems are characterized by large numbers of processing elements interconnected by some scalable high performance network. While these architectures provide the processing power required, additional operating system support is necessary to make porting of applications feasible.

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  1. SIEMENS NIXDORF Informationssysteme AG, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, D-8000, Munich 83

    Peter Schlichtiger

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Arthur Karshmer Jürgen Nehmer

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Schlichtiger, P. (1991). Closely coupled systems. In: Karshmer, A., Nehmer, J. (eds) Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024521

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