Title :
DADENT: a cost-effective environment for developing distributed software
Author :
Li, Xiaoming ; Jiang, Zhongxiang ; Jin, Lijie ; Li, Sifei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., China
Abstract :
As an application of a large amount of existing PC-type computers, the authors have developed a convenient environment, called DADENT, for developing distributed software. Fundamental considerations of the design are cost-effectiveness and usage convenience. As an eight man-year effort, DADENT now is completed and operates as expected. From a hardware point of view, a number of programmable switches (SIS) connected in user-favorite topology constitutes a backplane of the DADENT. From a software point of view, a simple interface is provided to support process communication. The functionalities and key technical points of DADENT are introduced
Keywords :
distributed processing; programming environments; software engineering; DADENT; backplane; cost-effective environment; developing distributed software; process communication; programmable switches; usage convenience; user-favorite topology; Application software; Backplanes; Communication switching; Distributed algorithms; Hardware; Packet switching; Protocols; Switches; Switching circuits; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1991. COMPSAC '91., Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2152-4
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1991.170265
