GLUnix: A global layer unix for a network of workstations

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 929-961

  Ghormley, Douglas P ^a   Petrou, David ^b   Rodrigues, Steven H ^c   Vahdat, Amin M ^a   Anderson, Thomas E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Network Appliance Corporation

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster services; Distributed operating systems; Networks of workstations; Transparent remote execution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; UNIX;

WORKSTATION NETWORK;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032116291     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(19980725)28:9<929::AID-SPE183>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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