DCT — A testbed approach to distributed systems research

Abstract

The rationale and conceptual design 1s presented for the Distributed Computer Testbed (DCT), currently being developed at Honeywell's Systems and Research Center. The DCT 1s a highly reconfigurable and Instrumented tool that will allow experimentation 1n a variety of distributed computing areas, ranging from performance evaluation of media access protocols to concept validation of distributed fault-tolerance strategies. Work 1s continuing on the detailed design and Implementation of DCT.