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Technical Report CNDS-98-4.
Citation
Yair Amir and Jonathan Stanton, "The Spread Wide Area Group Communication System",
Center for Networking and Distributed Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Technical Report 98-4, July 1998.
Authors
Yair Amir and Jonathan Stanton
Abstract
Building a wide area group communication system is a challenge. This
paper presents the design and protocols of the Spread wide area group
communication system. Spread integrates two low level protocols, one for
local area networks, called Ring, and one for the wide are network
connecting them, called Hop. Spread decouples the dessimination and
local reliability mechanisms from the global ordering and stability
protocols. This allows many optimizations useful for wide are network settings.
Spread is operational and publically av
ailable on the web. Spread supports cross-platform
operation on the following platforms: Intel/BSDI, Intel/Linux, Intel/Solaris,
Intel/Win95, Intel/WinNT, Sparc/SunOS, Sparc/Solaris,and SGI/Irix.
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