TY - JOUR
T1 - The Amoeba Distributed Operating System - A Status Report
AU - Tanenbaum, A.S.
AU - Kaashoek, M.F.
AU - van Renesse, R.
AU - Bal, H.E.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - As the price of CPU chips continues to fall rapidly, it will soon be economically feasible to build computer systems containing a large number of processors. The question of how this computing power should be organized, and what kind of operating system is appropriate then arises. Our research during the past decade has focused on these issues and led to the design of a distributed operating system called Amoeba which is intended for systems with large numbers of computers. Amoeba, its philosphy, design, applications and some experience with it are described here. © 1991.
AB - As the price of CPU chips continues to fall rapidly, it will soon be economically feasible to build computer systems containing a large number of processors. The question of how this computing power should be organized, and what kind of operating system is appropriate then arises. Our research during the past decade has focused on these issues and led to the design of a distributed operating system called Amoeba which is intended for systems with large numbers of computers. Amoeba, its philosphy, design, applications and some experience with it are described here. © 1991.
KW - Amoeba
KW - distributed computing
KW - operating systems
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U2 - 10.1016/0140-3664(91)90058-9
DO - 10.1016/0140-3664(91)90058-9
M3 - Article
SN - 0140-3664
VL - 14
SP - 324
EP - 335
JO - Computer Communications
JF - Computer Communications
IS - 6
ER -
