Large-Scale Systems: Globe

• Supporting Large-Scale Wide-Area Applications

  • Uniform Model for Distributed Computing
  • Flexible Implementation Framework
  • Worldwide Scalability

• The Globe Object Model: Distributed Shared Objects

• Example: Scalable World-Wide Web Objects

• Reading:

  • M. van Steen, P. Homburg, A. S. Tanenbaum. “The Architectural Design of Globe: A Wide-Area Distributed System”(ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/papers/globe/IR-422.97.ps.Z)

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