分布式系统与管理chapter3Processes.pptVIP

Distributed SystemsProcesses Yingchi Mao Outline Threads in distributed systems Virtualization Thin-client computing Servers Code migration Threads Introduction to Threads Threads in Distributed Systems What Is A Process? Broadly speaking, what is a process? Some notion of execution. Something that has a sequence of instructions, and changes the state of the system as a result of those instructions. Some notion of containment. A process is usually thought of as “owning” certain resources. A process has a set of instructions (the “program”). “A program in execution”. What is a thread th