Workstation autonomy is a dead issue
Redell, D.D.
DEC Syst. Res. Center, Palo Alto, CA;
This paper appears in: Workstation Operating Systems, 1992. Proceedings., Third Workshop on
Publication Date: 23-24 Apr 1992
On page(s): 15-16
Meeting Date: 04/23/1992 - 04/24/1992
Location: Key Biscayne, FL, USA
ISBN: 0-8186-2555-4
References Cited: 0
INSPEC Accession Number: 4584185
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/WWOS.1992.275696
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
Two significant questions relating to workstation autonomy are
control of resources and control of information. It is argued that in
light of developing technology these factors will become increasingly
irrelevant over the next decade, and that work will be possible from
anonymous workstations with the computation load split appropriately
between one or more processors local to the workstation and additional
processors available via the network. It will be essential that writing
programs for this environment be as straightforward as possible.
Scheduling of work across such a distributed system will involve both
global decisions (process placement and migration) and local ones. In
computer servers with heavily cached memory systems, the appropriate
granularity for local scheduling will be coarser than for interactive
workstations. This raises issues not only for the local scheduler, but
also for the application partitioning tools
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