#Number
TR-PDS-1997-012

#Title 
Experience with Distributed Replicated Objects: The Nile Project

#Author
Aleta Ricciardi, Michael Ogg, Fabio Previato

#Abstract
The goal of the Nile project is to develop an
inexpensive, scalable, fault-tolerant, widely distributed job processing
environment.  On the systems side, Nile must manage and provide
transparent access to hundreds of commodity processors spread across the
United States, and a distributed database that will exceed 100~terabytes.
These are scales not commonly encountered by projects concerned with fault
tolerance.  On the software engineering side, Nile must be easily
maintained, outlive its development phase, and be able to incorporate, or
even migrate to, new software components; these requirements led us to the
CORBA standard.  While CORBA does not yet include a fault tolerance
specification, only a small number of experimental ORBs support object
fault tolerance through replication.  Our experiences over two years of
building Nile have taught us a great deal that may be of use to designers
of ORBs that will support object replication and fault tolerance.
	
#Bib
@Techreport{Nile:tapos,
        author = "A. Ricciardi and M. Ogg and F. Previato" ,
        title = "Experience with Distributed Replicated Objects: The Nile Project", 
        institution = "UT Austin",
        year = "1997",
        note = "available via ftp or WWW at maple.ece.utexas.edu
                as technical report TR-PDS-1997-007"
}