A Virtual Multiprocessor Implemented By an Encapsulated Cluster of Loosely Coupled Computers

This paper describes techniques for allowing an existing, industrial gradekernel, to be used in a way that many machines appear as one to the internet, where existingoperating systems execute unmodified.Existing techniques for managing distributed systems, such as LOCUS (3), TCF (4) and DCE(5) create various simulations of "single system image" for file name space and process namespace. These are provided at levels higher than IP address and port number. The hosts participatingin these...