An Overview of Distributed System Construction Using Conic

Distributed systems offer an attractive implementation architecture for many applications, particularly those environments where the application is itself physically distributed. For the last eight years the Distributed Systems Research Group at Imperial College has conducted research into the development of an environment to support the construction and operation of distributed software. The result has been the Conic Toolkit: a comprehensive set of language and run-time tools for program compilation, building, debugging and execution in a distributed environment. Programs may be run on a set of interconnected host computers running the Unix™ operating system and/or on target machines with no resident operating system.