Reliable Distributed Computing with the Isis Toolkit
Systems
1. Auflage März 1994
416 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Reliable Distributed Computing with the Isis Toolkit presents technical results documenting various internal aspects of Isis along with less technical results illustrating how systems are used to develop closely coupled and fault-tolerant application environments. The text consists of 20 papers that document Isis and describe its important applications. The first section deals with the underlying ideas of the Isis system. The second section describes design alternatives, the Horus system, integrating security in a group-oriented distributed system, and high availability in a real-time system. The third section examines the protocols used in Isis and Horus. The last section contains user-contributed papers on Isis applications and tools.
I: FUNDAMENTALS.
2. The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed Computing
(Kenneth P. Birman).
3. Causal Controversy at Le Mont St.-Michel (Robbert van
Renesse).
4. RPC Considered Inadequate (Kenneth P. Birman and Robbert van
Renesse).
5. Exploiting Virtual Synchrony in Distributed Systems (Kenneth P.
Birman and Thomas Joseph).
6. Virtual Synchrony Model (Kenneth P. Birman).
II: REDESIGN.
7. Design Alternatives for Process Group Membership and Multicast
(Kenneth P. Birman, Robert Cooper, Barry Gleeson).
8. The Horus System (Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Robert
Cooper, Brad Glade, and Patrick Stephenson).
9. Integrating Security in a Group-Oriented Distributed System
(Michael Reiter, Kenneth P. Birman, Na Li Gong).
10. High Availability in a Real-Time System (Carlos Almeida, Brad
Glade, Keith Marzullo, and Robbert van Renesse).
III: PROTOCOLS.
11. Reliable Communication in the Presence of Failures (Kenneth P.
Birman and Thomas Joseph).
12. Lightweight Causal and Atomic Group Multicast (Kenneth P.
Birman, Andre Schiper, and Pat Stephenson).
13. Consistent Process Membership in Asynchronous Environments
(Aleta Ricciardi and Kenneth P. Birman).
14. Efficient Broadcast Primitives in Asynchronous Distributed
Systems (Frank Schmuck).
15. Light-Weight Process Groups in the Isis System (Bradford B.
Glade, Kenneth P. Birman, Robert C.B. Cooper, and Robbert van
Renesse).
IV: TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.
16. Using the Isis Resource Manager for Distributed, Fault-Tolerant
Computing (Timothy A. Clark and Kenneth P. Birman).
17. The Design and Implementation of Meta (Mark Wood and Keith
Marzullo).
18. Paratex: An Environment for Parallel Programming in Distributed
Systems (Ozalp Babaogul, Lorenzo Alvisi, Alessandro Amoroso, Renzo
Davoli, and Luigi Alberto Giachini).
19. IMIS: A Distributed Query and Report Formatting System (T.
Anthony Allen, William Sheppard, and Steve Condon).
20. Distributed Programming with Asynchronous Ordered Channels in
Distributed ML (Robert Cooper and Clifford Krumvieda).
21. The Isis Project: Real experience with a fault tolerant
programming system (Kenneth P. Birman and Robert Cooper).
Bibliography.
Index.