Chapter 1 characterisation of distributed systems
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This document discusses the key concepts and challenges of distributed systems. It defines distributed systems as networked computers that communicate by passing messages in order to share resources. Some of the main challenges discussed include heterogeneity, security, scalability, failure handling, and transparency. Transparency refers to hiding the complexities of the distributed nature of the system from users, such as hiding the physical location of resources or ability to access both local and remote resources uniformly.
![Resource Sharing and the Web
HTML, Hyper Text Markup Language
URL, Uniform Resource Locator
http://servername[:port] [/pathname] [?arguments]
HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol
request-reply protocol (client-server)
content types--MIME types, multipurpose internet mail
extensions
one resource per request
simple access control (mostly public)
Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg
Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
Edn. 4
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Chapter 1 characterisation of distributed systems
- 1. Characterization of Distributed Systems From Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edition 4, © Pearson Education 2005
- 2. Networking and Parallel Computing Computer networking Hardware that connects computers Software that sends/receives messages from one computer to another, which might be on different networks (end to end delivery) Goal is to transmit messages reliably and efficiently Parallel Computing Multiple homogeneous processors in “one” computer Shared or distributed memory Goal is to execute a program faster by division of labor Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 3. Distributed Computing Networked computers that could be far apart rely on computer networking Communicate and coordinate by sending messages Goal is to share (access/provide) distributed resources Issues: Concurrent execution of processes No global clock for coordination More components, more independent failures Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 4. Examples of Distributed Systems Global Internet Organizational Intranets--behind router/firewall Mobile Computing -- computers move Ubiquitous Computing -- computers embedded everywhere Issues: discovery of resources in different host environments dynamic reconfiguration limited connectivity privacy and security guarantees to the user and the host environment Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 5. A Typical Portion of the Internet intranet Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005 ISP desktop computer: backbone satellite link server: network link:
- 6. A Typical Intranet Web server Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005 the rest of email server Desktop computers File server router/firewall print and other servers print other servers Local area network email server the Internet
- 7. Portable and handheld devices Mobile Laptop Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005 Printer Camera Internet Host intranet WAP Home intranet Wireless LAN phone gateway Host site
- 8. Resource Sharing and the Web HTML, Hyper Text Markup Language URL, Uniform Resource Locator http://servername[:port] [/pathname] [?arguments] HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol request-reply protocol (client-server) content types--MIME types, multipurpose internet mail extensions one resource per request simple access control (mostly public) Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 9. Web Servers and Web Browsers www.google.com http://www.google.comlsearch?q=kindberg Web servers Browsers Internet www.cdk3.net www.w3c.org Protocols Activity.html http://www.cdk3.net/ http://www.w3c.org/Protocols/Activity.html Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005 File system of www.w3c.org
- 10. Other Web Technologies web forms CGI programs, common gateway interface, run on the server applets, run on the client RDF, resource description framework, vocabulary for meta-data XML, extensible markup language, allow meta-data information to be included Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 11. Computers in the Internet Date Computers Web servers 1979, Dec. 188 0 1989, July 130,000 0 1999, July 56,218,000 5,560,866 2003, Jan. 171,638,297 35,424,956 Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 12. Computers vs. Web servers in the Internet Date Computers Web servers Percentage 1993, July 1,776,000 130 0.008 1995, July 6,642,000 23,500 0.4 1997, July 19,540,000 1,203,096 6 1999, July 56,218,000 6,598,697 12 2001, July 125,888,197 31,299,592 25 42,298,371 Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 13. Challenges and Issues (1) Heterogeneity networks, hardware, os, languages... middleware—corba mobile code, virtual machines Openness extended and re-implemented in various ways standard published interfaces RFC, request for comments Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005 Security confidentiality integrity availability
- 14. Challenges and Issues (2) Scalability effective with significant increase in resources cost performance Failure handling detecting masking—hide, less severe (retransmit) tolerating--ignore, timeout recovery--logs, rollback Redundancy Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005 Concurrency
- 15. Challenges and Issues (3) Transparency Access transparency: enables local and remote resources to be accessed using identical operations. Location transparency: enables resources to be accessed without knowledge of their physical or network location (for example, which building or IP address). Concurrency transparency: enables several processes to operate concurrently using shared resources without interference between them. Replication transparency: enables multiple instances of resources to be used to increase reliability and performance without knowledge of the replicas by users or application programmers. Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005
- 16. Challenges and Issues (4) Transparency Failure transparency: enables the concealment of faults, allowing users and application programs to complete their tasks despite the failure of hardware or software components. Mobility transparency: allows the movement of resources and clients within a system without affecting the operation of users or programs. Performance transparency: allows the system to be reconfigured to improve performance as loads vary. Scaling transparency: allows the system and applications to expand in scale without change to the system structure or the application algorithms. Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 4 © Pearson Education 2005