{"title":"QuickSilver support for access to data in large, geographically dispersed systems","authors":"M. Theimer, L. Cabrera, J. Wyllie","doi":"10.1109/ICDCS.1989.37927","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"QuickSilver is a distributed operating system that is intended for large, geographically dispersed systems. The authors describe how clients and data servers interact in the QuickSilver system to access distributed data in the context of large, geographically dispersed systems in which there are many different kinds of data servers. An interface is defined that provides a uniform way for clients and servers to exchange information about each other and to access data objects. The interface attempts to minimize the number of messages needed for this. It supports efficient interaction with higher-level client and server semantics by appropriate use of high-level abstractions and operations, and by selectively exposing the parameters governing communication connections to higher layers of the software.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":266544,"journal":{"name":"[1989] Proceedings. The 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1989] Proceedings. The 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.1989.37927","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
QuickSilver is a distributed operating system that is intended for large, geographically dispersed systems. The authors describe how clients and data servers interact in the QuickSilver system to access distributed data in the context of large, geographically dispersed systems in which there are many different kinds of data servers. An interface is defined that provides a uniform way for clients and servers to exchange information about each other and to access data objects. The interface attempts to minimize the number of messages needed for this. It supports efficient interaction with higher-level client and server semantics by appropriate use of high-level abstractions and operations, and by selectively exposing the parameters governing communication connections to higher layers of the software.<>