Scout: A Communications-Oriented Operating System (1994)
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@TECHREPORT{Montz94scout:a,
author = {Allen B. Montz and David Mosberger and Sean W. O'Malley and Larry L. Peterson and Todd A. Proebsting and John H. Hartman},
title = {Scout: A Communications-Oriented Operating System},
institution = {},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
This white paper describes Scout, a new operating system being designed for systems connected to the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Scout provides a communication-oriented software architecture for building operating system code that is specialized for the different systems that we expect to be available on the NII. It includes an explicit path abstraction that both facilitates effective resource management and permits optimizations of the critical path that I/O data follows. These path-enabled optimizations, along with the application of advanced compiler techniques, result in a system that has both predictable and scalable performance.
