Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In this thesis, we present a framework for writing distributed computer programs in Scheme using simple future semantics.This allows a Scheme program originally written for execution on a single computer to be run in a distributed manner on a cluster of computers with very little modication to the program.The structure of the computation can be extremely general and need not be specied in advance.In order to provide this programming environment, we implemented a system of job execution servers which transparently execute arbitrary Scheme code written in a functional or mostly functional style.The use of a functional, side eect free style of programming simplies the challenges of data consistency.A number of demonstrations of the system are presented, including a distributed SAT solver.The performance of the system is shown to increase roughly linearly with the number of servers employed.
Author: Alex Schwendner
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1507005739