System support for partition-aware network applications
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
TOS: kernel support for distributed systems management
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Group communication specifications: a comprehensive study
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Groups Partitioning Over CORBA for Cooperative Work
Cluster Computing
Toward integrating IP multicasting in internet network management protocols
Computer Communications
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In the past, system management tools for computer systems were oriented towards managing a single computer with, possibly, many users. When the networked system concept became widespread, centralized solutions such as the Network Information Service NIS (formerly called Yellow Pages), were developed to help the system manager to control a network of workstations. Today, when many sites contain hundreds of workstations, these solutions may no longer be adequate. This paper proposes the usage of techniques, developed for group communication and database replication, for distributed cluster management. We show how group communication can be exploited to provide three classes of frequently needed operations: simultaneous execution Of the same operation in a group of workstations. software installation in multiple workstations. consistent network table management (improving NIS' consistency).