Distributed operating system for cooperating functional processors
E.E. Reiter, D.L. Zimmerman · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1981
The paper has been divided into several main chapters. This first chapter contains a discussion of the goals of the system, the architecture assumptions used, and the structure of FP. The next chapters present an overview and discussion of the service support layer processes, and other upper level supports for the partition of problems, parallel processing, and the implementation of the FP language. These chapters are the heart of the paper, in the sense that they deal with the possibility of an implementation of a parallel processor that accepts FP. The next chapter is a discussion of the kernel of the operating system. In this distributed system, this is the message passing system. It allows processes on the same or different nodes to communicate, and is thus the backbone of the entire system. Finally, we have included another chapter which reviews some of the issues covered in this system. For instance, we have included discussions of synchronization, resource allocation, and protection.