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Lightweight causal and atomic group multicast
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The ISIS toolkit is a distributed programming environment based on support for virtually synchronous process groups and group communication. A suite of protocols is presented to support this model. The approach revolves around a multicast primitive, called CBCAST, which implements a fault-tolerant, causally ordered message delivery. This primitive can be used directly or extended into a totally ordered multicast primitive, called ABCAST. It normally delivers messages immediately upon reception, and imposes a space overhead proportional to the size of the groups to which the sender belongs, usually a small number. It is concluded that process groups and group communication can achieve performance and scaling comparable to that of a raw message transport layer. This finding contradicts the widespread concern that this style of distributed computing may be unacceptably costly.
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- Authors
- Birman, K., Schiper, A., & Stephenson, P.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- Published
- 1991-08
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 272-314
- ISSN
- 0734-2071 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7333
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- W1985349143
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- 46.33
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- en
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