Using the ISIS resource manager for distributed, fault-tolerant computing
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Clark, T.A.; Birman, K.P.
- Source
- [1993] Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences System Sciences, 1993, Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on. i:257-265 vol.1 1993
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Intersymbol interference
Resource management
Fault tolerance
Distributed computing
Application software
Power system management
Computer networks
Workstations
Computer network management
Operating systems
- Language
Under current versions of the UNIX operating system, it is difficult to take advantage of the massive computing power of idle or lightly loaded workstations on a network. The authors introduce the ISIS resource manager, a distributed fault-tolerant application capable of recapturing this processing power, as well as providing a transparent interface to network computing resources. They discuss the growing importance of high-speed workstation networks and the need for network management utilities and consider how advances in software technology have made it possible to easily construct a distributed fault-tolerant application to meet this need. The architecture of the resource manager is described as an example of this class of application.ETX