Tutorial, a Pragmatic View of Distributed Processing Systems


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The concepts described here were originally developed during a series of seminars given at the University of Minnesota, portions of which dealt with the meaning of distributed processing and introduced overall concepts in distributed systems. This volume presents those ideas, beginning with the overall concept and works toward implemented hardware structures. The intent of this volume is to illustrate the problems and promises of distributed systems, while informing readers of the pitfalls and progress of distributed systems.










Distributed Processing


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The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce distributed processing concepts. These concepts can be used to determine the relevance of a distributed processing approach to the reader's computing needs. Those considering the use of distributed systems will be confronted with managerial and technical issues, but this tutorial focuses on the technological issues. The technological issues involve communications, intercomputer coupling, executive software structures, system architecture, component selection, and allocation of functions and data files to multiple processors.







Tutorial, Computer System Requirements


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This tutorial developed over a number of years, during an engineering career wherein the author encountered 'systems design' that appeared to contain no design whatsoever. Regardless of design goals, processes, or requirements, it appeared that in corporate America, it was the job of marketing departments to designate the requirements satisfied by the end product. This collection of articles presents a straw man strategy to help avoid ad-hoc designs, and to answer the questions and develop the ideas that lead to concrete, a-priori requirements for systems design.




Digest of Papers - Compcon


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Digest of Papers


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