Ogham

Developed by:
University College, Cork, Ireland Richard P. Studdert, John W.G. Buckley, Cormac J. Sreenan and Michael P. Russell

Short Description:
Ogham is a kernel for distributed operating systems. It is based on an object model, with all objects accessed in a location independent fashing using a specialised communication facilitiy. Resource managers are realised as processes that are free to mig rate throughout the system. Ogham is designed to allow local area interconnected microcomputers to be used as a computing facility for the investigation of distributed operating systems.

Model: loosely-coupled, workstation, client/server, fully integrated, homogeneous, multiple-instance, kernelized/micro kernel
Properties: datagram, synchronization, atomic transactions, migration, lightweight, global naming, asynchronous message passing,
Transparency: location
Running on: Intel 186/51 microcomputers and Ethernet
Date: 01.01.88 Ð ?


References:
Studdert, R. P. and others: "The Architecture of a Distributed Computer System", IEEE, Proceedings of a Workshop on the Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems in the 1990s, Hong Kong, September 1988, pp. 383--390.


© 1995, Alfred Lupper, Department of Computer Science, University of Ulm