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    Distributed Operating Systems

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    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

    High Thruput Nets for Petaflops Computing

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    rocessors busy, that is roughly one million 128 MB DRAMs filling a 2 meter cube. Memory access latency is roughly 60 ns (6,000 integer instruction times): 36 ns for signal flight at 1/2 light speed, 2 ns for thermal-shielding memory interfaces, 20 ns for DRAMs, and 2 ns for switching network delays. DRAM speed and physical size are the main factors in memory latency, which must be hidden. In RSFQ computing networks, bits are signaled by the absence or presence of single quanta of magnetic flux in tiny superconducting current loops. Josephson junctions become resistive when Depts of Computer Science and Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, [email protected], 516-632-8456 (M,F) and 516-271-5162 (S,TWT,S) This work was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) through an agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. too much current passes through them. For circuits built from 0.
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