Distributed systems design for tactical applications
L. Anderson, Brendan Manning, L.J. Slechta, T. Wolff · 1979
The object of this paper has been to establish the relationship between application partitioning and hardware partitioning and assess the impact on system performance. It has been shown that efficient, high-performance systems are easier to construct when the hardware partitioning most closely resembles the application partitioning. A solution has been presented which establishes a hardware structure directly related to the logical system structure, produced by means of a suggested system design methodology. The authors believe that this approach satisfies the performance, flexibility and readiness objectives of future defense systems. [This paper, in slightly different form, appeared earlier in the Proceedings of Compcon, Fall '79. It is reproduced here with various revisions and updates.]