Grapevine is a distributed, replicated system that provides message delivery, naming, authentication, resource location, and access control services in an internet of computers. The system, described in a previous paper [1], was designed and implemented ...

The distributed V kernel is a message-oriented kernel that provides uniform local and network interprocess communication. It is primarily being used in an environment of diskless workstations connected by a high-speed local network to a set of file ...

Publishing is a model and mechanism for crash recovery in a distributed computing environment. Published communication works for systems connected via a broadcast medium by recording messages transmitted over the network. The recovery mechanism can be ...

A simple and general design uses message-based communication to provide software tolerance of single-point hardware failures. By delivering all interprocess messages to inactive backups for both the sender and the destination, both backups are kept in a ...

Atomic transactions are useful in distributed systems as a means of providing reliable operation in the face of hardware failures. Nested transactions are a generalization of traditional transactions in which transactions may be composed of other ...

LOCUS is a distributed operating system which supports transparent access to data through a network wide filesystem, permits automatic replication of storage, supports transparent distributed process execution, supplies a number of high reliability ...

Experience with the design and implementation of a number of computer systems, and study of many other systems, has led to some general hints for system design which are described here. They are illustrated by a number of examples, ranging from hardware ...

Remote procedure calls (RPC) are a useful paradigm for providing communication across a network between programs written in a high level language. This paper describes a package, written as part of the Cedar project, providing a remote procedure call ...

R* is an experimental prototype distributed database management system. The computation needed to perform a sequence of multisite user transactions in R* is structured as a tree of processes communicating over virtual circuit communication links. ...