Progress in Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Systems Management

A selection of papers presented at a workshop on distributed operating systems and management of distributed systems. The papers focus on the illustration of existing concepts and solutions in distributed systems research and development and include case study analyses.

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The evolution of a distributed operating system.- AIL-a class-oriented RPC stub generator for Amoeba.- Peace A distributed operating system for high-performance multicomputer systems.- Virtual memory management in Chorus.- Is object orientation a good thing for distributed systems?.- Experiences with a portable network operating system.- On the implementation of abstract data types in BirliX.- Monitoring and management-support of distributed systems.- DAPHNE support for distributed computing in heterogeneous environments.- Distributed computing with a processor bank.- MANDIS: Management of distributed systems.- OAI concepts for open systems cooperation.- Position paper for the workshop progress in distributed operating systems and distributed systems management a European update .- Position paper.- Keep things as simple as possible.- Research directions for distributed operating systems.- Position paper for panel discussion.- Key research directions in distributed operating systems.- Position statement for the panel discussion.- Position statements on "distributed operating systems".- Some unsolved problems of distributed system management, as seen from project Athena.- Extending distributed operating systems to manageable large scale distributed processing environments.- Future collaborative research in Europe.- Progress in distributed operating systems and distributed systems management.