Exploiting virtual synchrony in distributed systems：（利用虚拟同步分布式系统）.pdfVIP

E X P L O I T I N G V I R T U A L S Y N C H R O N Y I N D I S T R I B U T E D S Y S T E M S Kenneth P. Birman and Thomas A. J o s e p h Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853. Abstract: We describe applications of a virtually synchro- nating actions at physmally separate locations, load nous environment for distributed programming, which balancing, and dynamically reconfiguring the system underlies a collection of distributed programming tools in the 1SIS2 system. A virtually synchronous environment after a component goes off line or comes back on line. allows processes to be structured into process groups, and The premise of the ISIS project and this paper is makes events like broadcasts to the group as an entity, group membership changes, and even migration of an that the existing software development methodology activity from one place to another appear to occur instan- is inadequate to address this class of applications. taneously -- in other words, synchronously. A major Here, we put forward a new approach that permits advantage to this approach is that many aspects of a dis- tributed application can be treated independently without applications to be decomposed into orthogonal com- compromising correctness. Moreover, user code that is ponents that can be treated separately