Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Computer networks have the ability to bring the power of large machines to work on a single problem and to provide reliable computer services to large populations. They also may become an unmanageable structure that can cripple itself in a fashion akin to the great Northeast power failure in 1965. Imagine the following sequence: computer X does not have the sine subprogram but relies on computer Y for it; computer Y on the other hand solves the sine subprogram using the cosine subprogram which it doesn't have; computer Y therefore calls X for a cosine; X solves for cosine using sine which it asks Y for.& Of course, you say, no computer network would be so simplistic. But would you guarantee it could never happen for any set of computer resources among N computers-and that the network might not head for the buried recursive disaster like a lemming for a cliff? |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
1970 | 10.1109/C-M.1970.216702 | IEEE Computer |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
large population,computer networks,reliable computer service,sine subprogram,cosine subprogram,computer y,large machine,computer network,great northeast power failure,computer resource,computer x | Journal | 3 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
5 | 0018-9162 | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.37 | 0 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Bell | 1 | 1050 | 532.60 |
| A. N. Habermann | 2 | 284 | 192.28 |
| McCredie, J. | 3 | 3 | 0.37 |
| Rutledge, R. | 4 | 3 | 0.37 |
| W. Wulf | 5 | 1785 | 1255.15 |