Implementation of a parallel and distributed MAKE on NFS with GATOS

Author

Folliot, Bertil

Author_Institution

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

fYear

1990

fDate

21-23 Mar 1990

Firstpage

871

Abstract

Summary form only given. A description is given of GATOS, a distributed tasks manager operating on a set of workstations connected by a local network. Its main purpose is to balance the load between different hosts in order to optimize the use of processors. The present version of this project is implemented on SUN work stations connected by Ethernet. The use of this manager is carried out on two levels. The first, is the external description of applications with the help of an execution graph. This graph indicates the dependencies among all programs of an application. Second the manager takes charge of the conception phase of new projects. GATOS provides operations which bring up a total transparency of the program distribution. GATOS has been built as a set of cooperative servers. Each one treats requests by local clients and by remote services coming from other servers. Such requests may be file migration, remote program execution, and remote file access

Keywords

distributed processing; file organisation; Ethernet; GATOS; NFS; SUN work stations; distributed tasks manager; execution graph; file migration; local network; remote file access; remote program execution; Assembly; Ethernet networks; Graphics; Load management; Project management; Statistical distributions; Sun; Tiles; Visualization; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1990. Conference Proceedings., Ninth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2030-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1990.101716

Filename

101716