Research in Functionally Distributed Computer Systems Development. Volume I. Project Report for Functionally Distributed Computer Systems Development; Software & Systems Structure. Part 2

摘要

This is the second and final part of the report of research performed by Kansas State University in multiple processor computer systems and networks. Part I covered the Design Phase of the effort; and this report covers the follow-up implementation, integration, test, and demonstration of a prototype model of the network. The network model consists of a cluster of minicomputers and microcomputers with supporting software. The model has been named MIMICS (Mini-Microcomputer System) and uses a high speed vendor-independent data bus, named KSUBUS, that was designed, developed, and built for this network. Network hardware included Interdata's 85, 7/32, 8/32 and IBM 370/158. The principal network software is a message system which is capable of residing in a variety of computers. The hardware independence is achieved by design and by coding the software in Concurrent PASCAL. A specification of a distributed data base management system was developed and implemented in the MIMICS network. A DBMS named TOTAL was used in the prototype. The general problems of DDBMS were studied, and solution syntheses are presented as well as a simulation model for a back-end DBMS. (Author)