The Transis approach to high availability cluster communication
Danny Dolev, Dalia Malki · Communications of the ACM · 1996
A unique large-scale multicast service designed for partitionable operation is examined here. In the local elections system of the municipality of “Wiredville”, 1 several computers were used to establish an electronic town hall. The computers were linked by a network. When an issue was put to a vote, voters could manually feed their votes into any of the computers, which replicated the updates to all of the other computers. Whenever the current tally was desired, any computer could be used to supply an up-to-the-moment count. On the night of an important election, a room with one of the computers became crowded with lobbyists