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Experiences Gained from Building a Services-Based Distributed Operating System

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Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2010)

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The goal of this paper is to present the experiences gained over 15 years of research into the design and development of a services-based distributed operating system. The lessons learnt over this period, we hope, will be of value to researchers involved in the design and development of operating systems that wish to harness the collective resources of ever-expanding distributed systems.

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    Andrzej Goscinski & Michael Hobbs

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chung Hua University, 300, Hsinchu, Taiwan, China

    Ching-Hsien Hsu

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, B2G 2W5, Antigonish, NS, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  3. Department of Computer Science ad Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology, 172 Gongreund 2-dong, Nowon-gou, 139-742, Seoul, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  4. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, 302-729, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

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Goscinski, A., Hobbs, M. (2010). Experiences Gained from Building a Services-Based Distributed Operating System. In: Hsu, CH., Yang, L.T., Park, J.H., Yeo, SS. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13136-3_23

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