Amoeba on a Multiprocessor
L.J. van Moergestel, Henri E. Bal, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robbert van Renesse, G.J. Sharp, Hans van Staveren, Andrew S. Tanenbaum · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 1989
Amoeba was originally designed for a loosely-coupled network of machines. In this paper we describe some preliminary results about bus contention in a multiprocessor implemententation of Amoeba. Computing Reviews categories: C.2.4, D.4 Keywords: Multiprocessors, VMEbus, Operating systems, Distributed systems, Distributed operating systems 1. INTRODUCTION The Amoeba project is a research effort aimed at understanding how to connect multiple computers together in a seamless way (Mullender and Tanenbaum, 1986; Tanenbaum et al., 1986; Tanenbaum and van Renesse, 1985). The basic idea is to provide the users with the illusion of a single powerful timesharing system, when, in fact, the system is implemented on a collection of machines, potentially close together, in a single rack in the machine room, or far apart, in different countries. This research has led to the design and implementation of the Amoeba distributed operating system, which is being used as a prototype and vehicle for ...