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The LOCUS Distributed System Architecture - (Computer Systems) by Gerald J Popek (Paperback)

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LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution.
About the Author: Gerald Popek is Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and President of Locus Computing Corporation in Santa Monica.
168 Pages
Computers, Computer Science
Series Name: Computer Systems

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LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution. It makes a collection of computers, whether they are workstations or mainframes, as easy to use as a single computer by providing a set of supports for the underlying network that is virtually invisible to users and - applications programs.

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Computer systems consisting of many machines will be the norm within a few years. However, making a collection of machines appear as a single, coherent system - in which the location of files, servers, programs, or users is invisible to users who do not wish to know - is a very difficult problem. LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution. It makes a collection of computers, whether they are workstations or mainframes, as easy to use as a single computer by providing a set of supports for the underlying network that is virtually invisible to users and - applications programs. This "network transparency" dramatically reduces the cost of developing and maintaining software, and considerably improves the user model of the system. It also permits a variety of system configurations, including diskless workstations, full duplex I/O to large mainframes, transparently shared peripherals, and incremental growth from one workstation to a large network including mainframes with no effect on applications software required to take advantage of the altered configurations. In addition to transparent, distributed operation, LOCUS features also include high performance and reliability; full Unix compatibility, support for heterogeneous machines and systems, automatic management of replicated file storage; and architectural extensions to support extensive interprocess communication and internetworking.

Contents
The LOCUS Architecture - Distributed Operation and Transparency - The LOCUS Distributed Filesystem - Remote Tasking - Filesystem Recovery - Dynamic Reconfiguration of LOCUS - Heterogeneity - System Management - Appendixes: LOCUS Version Vector Mechnism - LOCUS Internal Network Messages

The LOCUS Distributed System Architecture is included in the Computer Systems series, edited by Herb Schwetman.

About the Author

Gerald Popek is Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and President of Locus Computing Corporation in Santa Monica.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W) x .36 Inches (D)

Weight: .61 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 168

Genre: Computers

Sub-Genre: Computer Science

Series Title: Computer Systems

Publisher: MIT Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Gerald J Popek

Language: English

Street Date: January 1, 2003

TCIN: 1012970586

UPC: 9780262517195

Item Number (DPCI): 247-58-3483

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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