Supporting large scale applications on networks of workstations
Cooper, R.; Birman, K.
Workstation Operating Systems, 1989., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 27-29 Sep 1989 Page(s):25 - 28
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/WWOS.1989.109263
Summary:The extension of the ISIS distributed programming system to support large-scale distributed applications by providing hierarchical process groups is discussed. The present version of ISIS is limited to relatively small-scale applications, containing fewer than 50 workstations. The principal idea is to incorporate hierarchy in the program structure and exploit this to limit the communication and storage required in any one component of the distributed program. This approach seeks to maintain the advantages of virtual synchrony, while controlling those costs that grow as the size of a distributed application increases

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