Reliable management of distributed computations in Nexus

Author

Tripathi, Anand ; Koneru, Surya P. ; Nock, Clifton ; Tewai, R. ; Karnik, Neeran M. ; Bandi, Vijay ; Day, Khaled ; Noonan, Terence

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

20-23 Jul 1993

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

305

Abstract

This paper describes the approach taken for configuration management in the Nexus distributed operating system. Nexus uses kernel-level support for monitoring status of distributed components of an application. Periodic user-level messages are no longer required for status monitoring. Group and dependency relationships between such components can be defined by the programmer for the purpose of configuration monitoring and management. An object belonging to a distributed application can be monitored by its host kernel for some system-defined exception conditions. When any of these conditions arise, other objects are notified through signals or messages, as specified by the programmer

Keywords

configuration management; network operating systems; Nexus; configuration management; configuration monitoring; dependency relationships; distributed computations; distributed operating system; kernel-level support; reliable management; system-defined exception conditions; user-level messages; Concurrent computing; Condition monitoring; Distributed computing; Kernel; Local area networks; Operating systems; Programming profession; Protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1993., Proceedings the 2nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3900-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1993.263830

Filename

263830