Distributed Operating Systems

Distributed operating systems have many aspects in common with centralized ones, but they also differ in certain ways. This paper is intended as an introduction to distributed operating systems, and especially to current university research about them. After a discussion of what constitutes a distributed operating system and how it is distinguished from a computer network, various key design issues are discussed. Then several examples of current research projects are examined in some detail, namely, the Cambridge Distributed Computing System, Amoeba, V, and Eden. © 1985, ACM. All rights reserved

Disorder tuned superconductor insulator transition in La<SUB>2-x</SUB> (Sr/Ce) <SUB>x</SUB> CuO<SUB>4</SUB> &#38; NbN superconducting thin films

In studying the magneto-resistivity ρ(B) in high pulsed magnetic fields up to 55 T, it is often observed that the ρ(B) curves for different temperatures in the vicinity of the critical temperature cross at the same field value, B=B<SUB>CP</SUB>. We show how the crossing field changes as a function of the hole (or electron) doping x in La<SUB>2-x</SUB> (Sr/Ce) <SUB>x</SUB> CuO<SUB>4</SUB>. The resistivity ρ and the magnetic field B at different temperatures may be scaled as R/R<SUB>CP</SUB> and |B−B<SUB>CP</SUB>|/T^γ, respectively. This kind of scaling resulted in a conventional critical exponent γ=1/νz=1.35 (νz∼0.74) in our La<SUB>2-x</SUB> (Sr/Ce) <SUB>x</SUB> CuO<SUB>4</SUB> thin films, and a much higher value of γ=4.35 (νz∼0.23) in the case of our disordered NbN films