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The PerDiS (Persistent Distributed Store) project addresses the issue of providing support for distributed collaborative engineering applications. We describe the design and implementation of the PerDiS platform, and its support for such applications. Collaborative engineering raises system issues related to the sharing of large volumes of fine-grain, complex objects across wide-area networks and administrative boundaries. PerDiS manages all these aspects in a well defined, integrated, and automatic way. Distributed application programming is simplified because it uses the same memory abstraction as in the centralized case. Porting an existing centralized program written in C or C++ is usually a matter of a few, well-isolated changes. We present some performance results from a proof-of-concept platform that runs a number of small, but real, distributed applications on Unix and Windows NT. These confirm that the PerDiS abstraction is well adapted to the targeted application area and that the overall performance is promising compared to alternative approaches.
This work was supported by Esprit under the PerDiS project (n° 22533), http://www.perdis.esprit.ec.org/. The partners in the PerDiS consortium are: CSTB, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, INESC, QMW College, INRIA Rocquencourt, IEZ. Two are from the building industry: CSTB is a research institute, and IEZ is a CAD tool company. The others are research institutes or university departments in Informatics and Telecommunications. The Principal Investigator is Marc Shapiro.
Student at CNAM Cédric.
Student at IST, Technical University of Lisbon
Student at Université Paris-6, LIP6.
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Ferreira, P. et al. (2000). PerDiS: Design, Implementation, and Use of a PERsistent DIstributed Store. In: Krakowiak, S., Shrivastava, S. (eds) Advances in Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1752. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46475-1_18
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