Distributed process groups in the V Kernel
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Matchmaker: an interface specification language for distributed processing
POPL '85 Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Implementing remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Performing remote operations efficiently on a local computer network
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Grapevine: an exercise in distributed computing
Communications of the ACM
Weighted voting for replicated data
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Implementing Remote procedure calls
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The LOCUS distributed operating system
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The distributed V kernel and its performance for diskless workstations
SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Knowledge and common knowledge in a distributed environment
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Byzantine clock synchronization
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Fault-tolerant clock synchronization
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Remote procedure call
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Distributed shared memory in a loosely coupled distributed system
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Orca: A Language for Parallel Programming of Distributed Systems
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Orca: a language for distributed programming
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Heterogeneous Distributed Shared Memory
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Exclusive Access to Resources in Distributed Shared Memory Architecture
Fundamenta Informaticae - Concurrency Specification and Programming (CS&P)
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Much of the work to date on distributed systems has focused on the correct choice of communication paradigm, stressing (for example) message primitives, remote procedure call, problem- oriented protocols and so on. A distributed system service is then implemented as a module executing on particular server machine that is accessed using these communication facilities. In contrast, the shared memory paradigm has been used on multiprocessor and uniprocessor systems. In the shared memory paradigm, the state of a service is stored in shared memory and implemented in a decentralization fashion across multiple processors using this shared memory.This paper describes some preliminary thoughts on applying the shared memory paradigm to distributed systems. For efficiency reasons, shared memory is not provided in its full generality, but only with the semantics required for the applications of interest. This type of application-specific memory is called a problem-oriented shared memory. The use of problem- oriented shared memory is illustrated by describing several applications we are exploring in the V distributed system. We also discuss basic requirements on a communication system to support this approach.