Case study: Distributed system for educational use

Authors:
Jean Bacon;Adrian Stokes
Affiliations:
School of Information Sciences, The Hatfield Polytechnic, PO Box 109, College Lane, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, UK;School of Information Sciences, The Hatfield Polytechnic, PO Box 109, College Lane, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, UK
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
1981

Citing 4
Cited 0

Communicating sequential processes

Communications of the ACM
Distributed processes: a concurrent programming concept

Communications of the ACM
A domain structure for distributed computer systems

SOSP '77 Proceedings of the sixth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The Cambridge Model Distributed System

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.24

Visualization

Abstract

The paper describes how five minicomputers used in undergraduate teaching have been linked with, initially, a ring topology. An operating system kernel providing message primitives, already operational for a single site, has been extended for multisite connections and supports a hierarchy of processes according to the Reference Model for Open Systems Interconnection. In parallel, single-site systems based on procedural and rendezvous primitives are being formulated and extended for a distributed system. The aim of this work is to illustrate concepts and mechanisms in an educational environment.