Tilde

Developed by:
Purdue University, USA Douglas Comer, Thomas P Murtagh and John T. Korb

Short Description:
TILDE is an universal distributed file system which provides transparent access and location independent names at tree level. Caching is supported but no replication. The fetch grain are pages. The goal of the Tilde project was to explore general purpose distributed computing system in which the user interface hides the heterogeneous nature of the underlying hardware. A file naming sheme in which names are independent of the processors on which files reside must be part of such an interface. The Tilde fil e naming mechanism interprets file names relative to an environment maintained by the user rather than a single system-wide environment.

Model: loosely-coupled, heterogenous
Properties: traditional hierarchical naming
Transparency: access, naming
Running on:
Date: 1984Ð1986

References:
Douglas Comer and Thomas P Murtagh: "The Tilde File Naming Scheme", Los Angeles, CA, IEEE Computer Society, 6th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1986, pp.509Ð514 .
Douglas Comer and Ralph E. Droms: "Tilde Trees in the UNIX Environment", Tilde Project, Purdue University, January 1985.

Douglas Comer, John T. Korb, Thomas Murtagh, and Walter Tichy: "The TILDE Project", 1984 Purdue University, CSD-TR-500, November 23, 1984.