A Butler process for resource sharing on Spice machines

  • Authors:
  • Roger B. Dannenberg;Peter G. Hibbard

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

A network of personal computers may contain a large amount of distributed computing resources. For a number of reasons it is desirable to share these resources, but sharing is complicated by issues of security and autonomy. A process known as the Butler addresses these problems and provides support for resource sharing. The Butler relies upon a capability-based accounting system called the Banker to monitor the use of local resources.