Alphorn: a remote procedure call environment for fault-tolerant, heterogeneous, distributed systems

Author

Aschmann, Hans-Ruedi ; Giger, Niklaus ; Hoepli, Elisabeth ; Janak, Peter ; Kirrmann, H.

Author_Institution

Asea Brown Boveri Res. Center, Baden, Germany

Volume

11

Issue

5

fYear

1991

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

19

Abstract

Alphorn, a software environment for programming distributed computer systems, is described. Programs running on different computers, possibly of different types and running different operating systems, communicate in a client-server relationship by means of remote procedure calls. This efficient construct structures programs neatly. The paper covers distributed process control, Alphorn´s object-based programming style, remote procedure calls, the service interface language, configuration, runtime and debugging, and fault tolerance support.<>

Keywords

computer communications software; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; object-oriented programming; program debugging; programming environments; Alphorn; client-server relationship; configuration; debugging; fault tolerant distributed systems; object-based programming; operating systems; programming; remote procedure call environment; remote procedure calls; runtime; service interface language; software environment; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Fault tolerant systems; Industrial control; Local area networks; Operating systems; Process control; Programming profession; Protocols; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/40.108546

Filename

108546