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| Data units are the foundation for a new process interaction paradigm for distributed and multiprocessor systems. The data unit abstraction combines many of the strengths of RPC, distributed shared memory, and object-based approaches. It generalizes the concept of memory space to include structure information. When structure information is available, the underlying system can provide services such as transparent translation and support for dynamically linked data structures that span machine boundaries. This paper presents data units and their relationship to existing approaches. In addition, a prototype system based on data units is described, along with applications built using the data unit concept. These example applications demonstrate that data units are an effective and efficient new tool for distributed systems. 1 Introduction Applications in distributed systems are typically collections of independent, cooperating components which may reside on different nodes. This model appl... | |||||||||||||||||
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