The design of the UNIX operating system
The design of the UNIX operating system
Communications of the ACM
Charging for Computing Resources
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Principles of computer charging in a university-type organization
Communications of the ACM
The allocation of computer resources—is pricing the answer?
Communications of the ACM
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The UNIX operating system, despite its emergence as a standard for supercomputer systems, lacks effective support for multiuser resource administration. The design and implementation of a decentralised resource administration system uniformly realisable across the wide variety of UNIX dialects presents a number of problems. Among these problems are potential violations of the UNIX design philosophy, preservation of the user process environment and adherence to industry standards.A research project to design and develop a UNIX resource administration system built upon the “Fair Share” scheduler, Share, has been undertaken at Softway with the support of the Australian Government. This project has yielded a resource administration and control system called Limits and further research is being undertaken on its extension to networks supporting shared resources.