Distributed Systems
Global Name Service (GNS)
Designed and implemented by Lampson and colleagues at the DEC Systems Research Center (1986) Provide facilities for resource…
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Distributed Systems
Synchronizing physical clocks
Two models of synchronization 1) External synchronization 2) Internal synchronization External synchronization: a computer‘s clock Ci is synchronized with an external…
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CLOCKS, EVENTS AND PROCESS STATES
Each process executes on a single processor, and the processors do not share memory (Chapter 6 briefly considered…
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Physical, Logical, and Vector Clocks
Interactions within a Distributed System between 2 processes, P1 and P2. Distributed systems offer us the ability to…
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Global States
It is often desirable to determine whether a particular property is true of a distributed system as it…
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distributed computing
Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are shared among multiple computers to…
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Design Issues of Distributed System
The distributed information system is defined as “a number of interdependent computers linked by a network for sharing…
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous
The send, receive, and reply operations may be synchronous or asynchronous. A synchronous operation blocks a process till the operation completes. An asynchronous operation is non-blocking and only initiates the operation.…
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Message Passing Model of Process Communication
Process communication is the mechanism provided by the operating system that allows processes to communicate with each other.…
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Parallel Computing
Although distributed computing is a distinct method for harnessing the unused power of networked computers, it bears close…
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