Programming distributed systems with group IO

  • Authors:

  • F. Guerra;J. Miranda;J. M. Santos;E. Martel;L. Hernández;E. Pulido

  • Affiliations:

  • Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EUROMICRO-PDP'02 Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro conference on Parallel, distributed and network-based processing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes Group_IO, a software library written in Ada which facilitates the construction of distributed applications by means of the group paradigm, an abstraction which considers a set of processes as an individual entity. Group_IO provides support for replicated as well as cooperative groups. Group_IO offers a straightforward interface to reliable, atomic, causal, and uniform multicast services, and it allows client-server interactions where the client may be a process group. It relies on an own consensus protocol to implement the uniform broadcast protocols. Group_IO provides suport for the client/server group (1 - to - M) communication, client group/server (N - to - 1) and client group/group server (N - to - M) communication. Group_IO is the basis on which the programming language Drago [MAGA00] has been implemented.