Design of a portable distributed operating system
Micros is the distributed operating system for Micronet, a reconfigurable network of sixteen loosely-coupled LSI 11s each connected by a packet-switching front end to two of many high-speed busses. Micros allows many users to each run multicomputer programs controlled by Unix-like commands. Micros consists of both local and global system modules. The same local modules are resident in each node to load task code and to pass messages. Global operating system tasks are dynamically loaded into selected nodes and cooperate to manage network resources in successively more global nested subtrees. Micros will eventually include initialisation routines to select a virtual tree of resource management nodes within arbitrarily connected networks of thousands of nodes. A new version of micros with tools for developing and debugging large distributed application programs is being coded in modula-2. 34 references.
- OSTI ID:
- 5213626
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-830190-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International conference on system science, Honolulu, HI, USA, 5 Jan 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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