Title :
Hiding distribution in distributed systems
Author_Institution :
INRIA, Rennes, France
Abstract :
The author focuses on the evolution of transparency in distributed systems, that is, the provision of logically centralized system facilities on distributed system architectures. The author proposes a comparison between the virtues and faults of centralized and distributed architectures, and reviews the evolution of distributed systems. The notion of transparency is described in detail with some examples. The main features of new technologies used to build transparent subsystems on distributed architectures are discussed
Keywords :
distributed processing; parallel programming; software engineering; distributed systems; logically centralized system facilities; transparency; Application software; Books; Command languages; Computer languages; Distributed computing; Hardware; Laboratories; Programmable control; Software systems; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 1991. Proceedings., 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2140-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.1991.130643
