The possibilities of increased responsiveness, throughput, availability, reliability and cost-effectiveness invite investigation of the hardware and software design of multiprocessor computing systems.
This thesis describes an experiment in the design of a multiprocessor operating system based on the distribution of kernel functionality among the processors. One of the design objectives was to build a system capable of supporting real-time applications and a general-purpose, multi-user environment concurrently.
The hardware base is a simple, closely-coupled, star network of autonomous computers constructed from "off-the-shelf" boards. The operating system developed, named Distributed Verex, is an extension of Verex which is a descendant of Thoth. The Verex kernel provides an environment of processes and inter-process communication via message-passing on a uniprocessor computer. Distributed Verex provides the same environment uniformly and transparently throughout the multiprocessor system.
Distributed Verex has been implemented and is undergoing continuing development. Initial performance measurements are given. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/22981 |
| Date | January 1982 |
| Creators | Boyle, Patrick David |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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