FT-Linda: A Coordination Language for Programming Distributed Fault-Tolerance

摘要

Linda is a coordination language designed for parallel programming. It has also been suggested to support the client/server model of computation in a distributed system. FT-Linda, which is based on the Linda model, is proposed for developing fault-tolerant distributed systems. The new data types and additional operators: tuplespace, stable, tsCreate, x→ (fail-then) and gvote, are explained. A Simple Name Service, which is expressed in FT-Linda, is used to illustrate the feasibility of the language. A comparison between FT-Linda and other programming models for distributed fault-tolerance is presented.