Engineering Notes
Created by admin on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 15:54
Sub Topic:
Inherent Limitations of a Distributed System
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Advanced Operating Systems
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A distributed system is a set of computers that communicate
over a network, and do not share a common memory or a
common clock
n Absence of a common (global) clock
u No concept of global time
u It’s difficult to reason about the temporal ordering of events
F Cooperation between processes (e.g.,
producer/consumer, client/server)
F Arrival of requests to the OS (e.g., for resources)
F Collecting up-to-date global state
u It’s difficult to design and debug algorithms in a distributed
system
F Mutua
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