Title :
Distributed shared state
Author :
Scott, Michael L. ; Chen, DeQing ; Dwarkadas, Sandhya ; Tang, Chunqiang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rochester Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-to-peer computing, e-commerce, and multi-player games-even web caching and Internet chat-applications devote a significant fraction of their code to maintaining shared state: information that has dynamic content but relatively static structure, and that is needed at multiple sites. We argue that tools to automatically manage shared state have the potential to dramatically simplify the construction of distributed applications and, in important cases, to improve their performance as well. We discuss the characteristics that such tools must possess, placing them in the context of past work on distributed file systems, distributed object systems, and software distributed shared memory. We present the InterWeave system as a prototype implementation, and discuss its strengths and limitations.
Keywords :
Internet; distributed object management; distributed shared memory systems; network operating systems; InterWeave system; Internet; Internet chat; Web caching; computer-supported collaborative work; distributed file systems; distributed object systems; distributed shared state; e-commerce; information access; multiplayer games; peer-to-peer computing; software distributed shared memory; Application software; Collaborative work; Distributed computing; File systems; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software systems; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. FTDCS 2003. Proceedings. The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1910-5
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.2003.1204322