A dynamic reconfiguration manager for graph-oriented distributed programs

Author

Cao, Jiannong ; Chan, Edward ; Lee, Chan H. ; Yu, K.W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech., Hung Hom, Hong Kong

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Dec 1997

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

221

Abstract

Dynamic reconfiguration allows the system configuration to be changed while the system is in execution. It is definitely a desirable property for any large distributed system where dynamic modification and extension to the system and its applications are required. We have developed a software platform based on a graph-oriented model, which provides support for programming reconfigurable distributed applications. In this paper, we describe a dynamic reconfiguration manager for the graph-oriented distributed programming environment. The services and requirements of dynamic reconfiguration are identified, the architecture design of a dynamic reconfiguration manager is presented, and a central server-based prototypical implementation of the manager on a local area network of workstations is described

Keywords

local area networks; parallel programming; programming environments; distributed programming environment; dynamic reconfiguration manager; graph-oriented distributed programs; local area network; server-based prototypical implementation; software platform; system configuration; Application software; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Dynamic programming; Environmental management; Local area networks; Logic programming; Programming environments; Prototypes; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8227-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.1997.652553

Filename

652553