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From: ken@CS.Cornell.EDU (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [comp.sys.isis] Re: Learning about ISIS
Message-ID: <1991Oct12.105528.9198@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 91 10:55:28 GMT
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In article <3017@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil> raghuram@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil writes:
>I am beginning a study of ISIS. Aside from the article in August 91
>issue of IEEE Computer and the references at the back, would there
>be other articles, documents that will ease the learning process.?
>
>Also, how could I obtain a copy of the User's guide and reference
>manual? What are the requirements for obtaining ISIS environment?
There is an extensive list of references; at last count, perhaps 40
papers and technical reports that "relate" to the project. All of these
are available from my secretary (who can also email the most recent
list): reen@cs.cornell.edu
Most of our recent papers are also available in postscript form and can
be copied to your system and printed on your favorite laser printer.
The files to copy are on a machine named ftp.cs.cornell.edu:
ftp ftp.cs.cornell.edu
Name: anonymous
Password: my-user-name@my-home-machine
> ls pub/TR*
(long list)
> binary
> mget pub/TR*Z
> quit
You can also get at this stuff through Prospero (the Univ. of Washington
national file system) and, I think, through AFS.
Of the recent papers, the one that would be best to read first is
called "The process group approach to reliable distributed computing"
and is in the file pub/TR91-1216.ps.Z -- the other papers are more
technical and may be too detailed for just learning about the system.
Another reasonable place to look would be in the textbook from the
Arctic 88 short course in distributed systems. This book was edited
by Sape Mullender and appeared in the ACM Press series from Addison
Wesley in 1990; the title was shortened to "Distributed Systems". There
are two chapters concerned with systems like ISIS.
The IEEE Computer paper, of course, was about Meta, and papers on that
system are also available. Moreover, Mark Wood's thesis will soon be
available (meaning by the end of this year).
To obtain a free copy of ISIS, you copy ISISV21.TAR.Z and ISISV21-DOC.TAR.Z
from the same place, edit protos/pr_client.c and fix the chmod(...., 666);
to use mode 0666, and then start playing with it. This version of ISIS is
more than one year old and known to have some bugs, but is really quite
robust for most purposes and is used by a large number of research groups
and even commercial prototyping efforts. --> No support is available <--
The V2.1 ISIS release also contained an old but useable version of
Meta. Like ISIS V2.1, this version of Meta is --> not supported <--
To obtain the commercially extended version of ISIS, which is faster and
has a lot of new software, email to sla@isis.com for information. I
see that you are with the Navy: we can provide contacts at NSWC if you
like. The commercial version of ISIS, by the way, can be used from Ada.
And, of course, it is supported. A fancy version of Meta will soon be
available for V3.0
The commercial version of the manual can be purchased seperately from the
ISIS V3.0.3 commercial release, at $30/copy. A lot of work has gone into
the manual since V2.1 was released, and I recommend that you obtain a
copy of the V3.0.3 manual even if you plan to play with the V2.1 freebee
at first. However, I should also say that it is impossible to evaluate
the commercial product using the older, free system. If you need an
evaluation version of the commercial product and are not already a
user of V2.1, the company will generally accomodate requests. Again,
contact sla@isis.com for details.
--
Kenneth P. Birman E-mail: ken@cs.cornell.edu
4105 Upson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science TEL: 607 255-9199 (office)
Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (USA) FAX: 607 255-4428