Redundant ring structures for shipboard distributed computer systems.
Peter Burgess Snyder · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1976
The potential constraints on a ring structured distributed computing system imposed by the shipboard environment were discussed. The feasibility of increasing distributed ring system availability to meet the requirements were investigated. It was shown that with a multiply linked ring structure, shipboard environmental effects would not severely degrade successful operation of a distributed system. This finding could result in the utilization of distributed ring computing systems with suitably redundant data path schemes as a highly reliable general purpose data processing system on shipboard platforms. (Author)