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Department Technical Report Series No. 391

Selective Transparency in Distributed Transaction Processing

S.J. Caughey
S.K. Shrivastava
D.L. McCue

University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1992

Abstract

The design and implementation of an object management layer for a distributed memory multiprocessor system is described. It has been used for supporting an object-oriented fault-tolerant system (Arjuna). We discuss how various aspects of distribution transparency (location, access, migration, concurrency, replication and failure) have been incorporated in our design.