A Butler process for resource sharing on Spice machines

1 July 1985

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Vol. 3 (3) , 234-252
https://doi.org/10.1145/4229.4234

Abstract

A network of personal computers may contain a large amount of distributed computing resources. For a number of reasons it is desirable to share these resources, but sharing is complicated by issues of security and autonomy. A process known as the Butler addresses these problems and provides support for resource sharing. The Butler relies upon a capability-based accounting system called the Banker to monitor the use of local resources.

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