Incorporating input/output operations in LINDA

R Menezes; Alan Malcolm Wood

Incorporating input/output operations in LINDA

Computer Science

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Abstract

LINDA is a coordination model which, amongst other things, provides means for abstracting away from the location of information in distributed environments, Although the concept of location abstraction is important, and eases the programming task it is incomplete in the LINDA case. Whenever I/O operations arte necessary, users have to be aware of the locations of devices. The use of computational language specific details for distributed I/O restricts the portability of LINDA programs. Hitherto LINDA has shown ess hour to write portable distributed algorithms for a variety of applications but for applications involving I/O the portability is compromised. In order to achieve maximum portability, a LINDA application has to access I/O using proper LINDA facilities. This paper describes a generalisation of LINDA that includes coordination of distributed I/O. The advantages of such a generalisation and the problems involved in the implementation are also discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, VOL VII
Editors	H ElRewini
Place of Publication	LOS ALAMITOS
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	216-225
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	0-8186-8255-8
Publication status	Published - 1998
Event	31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-31) - KOHALA COAST Duration: 6 Jan 1998 → 9 Jan 1998

Conference

Conference	31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-31)
City	KOHALA COAST
Period	6/01/98 → 9/01/98

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