Alphorn: A Remote Procedure Call Environment for Fault-Tolerant, Heterogeneous, Distributed Systems

  • Authors:
  • Hans-Ruedi Aschmann;Niklaus Giger;Elisabeth Hoepli;Peter Janak;Hubert Kirrmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Alphorn, a software environment for programming distributed computer systems, is described. Programs running on different computers, possibly of different types and running different operating systems, communicate in a client-server relationship by means of remote procedure calls. This efficient construct structures programs neatly. The paper covers distributed process control, Alphorn's object-based programming style, remote procedure calls, the service interface language, configuration, runtime and debugging, and fault tolerance support.