In such an environment, connectability with other machines and usability on a large-scale network are required. DCE1.1 Package that permits the SX-4 Series to participate as a client in a Distributed Computing Environment. The following two basic DCE functions are provided. The difficulty to be overcome in order to use RPC is differing data formats on different machines.
Threads are a function that permits achieving parallel processing.
In a multi-processor system, the process is divided into multiple processes that can be executed at the same time, thus increasing the throughput. To achieve transparency in a DCE environment, a mechanism is provided so that an application can access resources by name without knowing where they are located on the network. In CDS, resource names can be duplicated and distributively managed. This function permits distribution of the load, helping to realize the DCE requirement of scalability. The DFS has been implemented based on AFS, which was developed at Carnegie Mellon University.